The vanishing billionaire: how Jack Ma fell foul of Xi Jinping ft.com/content/1fe055…

missing books from Douban (豆瓣)

How old were you when you learned that “broccoli” is a plural noun? As in... 🥦 🥦 = 2 broccoli 🥦 = 1 broccolo

【CCTV】《大家》20051115期：汉字激光照排之父——王选 youtu.be/b0IPp0od12M Tom Mullaney

The Pattern of the Chinese Past | MARK ELVIN

L’Internationale youtu.be/WNPKRjNEZ5E

My post on facebook today on the 100th anniversary of the Communist Party of China. facebook.com/gerard.roland.…

One chart that shows a key to the US economy's huge innovative advantage over other nations. It shows the global flows of inventors into and out of various countries from 2000-2010. What this looks like from 2020-2030 will shape the future world economy. hbs.edu/ris/Publicatio…

A longish interview with VOA that put my deteriorating Chinese ability to the test: 专访宋怡明：谈明代与当今中国政治 voachinese.com/a/interview-wi… via 美国之音中文网

3000 years ago, the spread of agricultural crops and techniques happened across places at similar latitudes. In a remote work world, will business processes and knowledge work cluster a long longitude instead?

The Origin of the State: Land Productivity or Appropriability? My JPE with Luigi Pascali and Joram Mayshar. I consider this my most significant work in 25 years of research. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108…

My latest. Don't mourn the death of hyper-globalization. A better globalization is possible and may yet emerge. project-syndicate.org/commentary/aft…

The Economist says, viz China and Africa: Africans "like seeing their economies treated as business opportunities rather than places to run randomised trials for foreign aid." How true. …-economist-com.proxy1.library.jhu.edu/special-report…

Final blow to the myth that counter-majoritarian institutions protect rights. Depends on who is on the Court.

Curious about how medieval monarchies handled the perennial problem of succession? Read all about it in our forthcoming book on the topic, here summarized in a blog post. blog.oup.com/2022/06/the-pe…

My 5X17 minutes lectures on democracy. See thegreatminds.com/speaker/adam-p…

Indonesian village resorts to Korean alphabet to preserve dying language youtu.be/0dtTBDEXVYY?si…

“European China policy is confusing,” he said. “China is referred to as a cooperation partner, an economic competitor and a systemic rival.” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The case for subsidizing green industries, as China has done, is impeccable, Dani Rodrik writes. bit.ly/3ytuiFi

I have several counter arguments to the overall point but, all in all, this might be the most accurate description of Foreign Affairs I’ve ever heard