Started my day reading 'Adaptive Political Economy' by Yuen Yuen Ang. So much love for this paper. Read it here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

When I read this flourish of essays about “Moral Political Economy,” social contract, and what not

I can’t help but ask: WHO’s moral political economy?

By whom? For whom?

while some Americans are fingerpointing China for the dramatic scenes in some U.S. university campuses, some Chinese are speculating in WeChat groups some mysterious pro-Arab money and influence at play.
And I told her no it's just some students are fed up with the atrocities in…

Minouche Shafik wrote a 2021 book - 'What we owe each other' - where she proposes a reset of the social contract to improve intergenerational fairness.
Then she went to Columbia and brought a notoriously violent police force into that social contract

61% of Asian Americans feel hate toward them has increased. 1 in 3 Asian Americans report having been called a racial or ethnic slur.

I’m glad these problems are gaining attention. Rising awareness should help spur progress in combatting hate.

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Confession: I have been procrastinating in writing about 'Adaptive Political Economy'
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No better place than to share it at SOAS Development Leadership Dialogue 🤩

Dedicated to overcoming silos & bringing disciplines in dialogue

'Adaptive political economy, therefore, must incorporate an inclusive and moral dimension—making it, collectively, an adaptive, inclusive, and moral (AIM) political economy—that honestly recognizes the inequities that have molded the way we think, see, and approach the world'

'It recognizes that social systems are complex,not complicated complexity can be ordered,not messy & social scientists should be developing the concepts,methods & theories to illuminate order of complexity,rather than over-simplifying it.'
- Yuen Yuen Ang
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'These elites who dismiss innovation among the poor are enthused about designing foreign-imposed aid projects to save the poor' - yet another must read by Yuen Yuen Ang

Thanks all for your interest! 😇 Honestly, I thought no one would be interested in 'Adaptive Political Economy.'

Free to download at SSRN. Will appear in World Politics in ~ a week.

Comments & rec' readings greatly appreciated

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Thanks all for your interest! 😇 Honestly, I thought no one would be interested in 'Adaptive Political Economy.'

Free to download at SSRN. Will appear in World Politics in ~ a week.

Comments & rec' readings greatly appreciated

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…