Climate – The Scholar's Stage

Notes From all Over (14/09/14): China’s Economy, Samurai, and Adam Tooze’s Take on Europe

14 September, 2014Bactria, Climate, Cognition, Demographics, Entangling Alliances, Europa Regina, Geopolitics, History, Japan, Monied Interests, Notes From All Over, The Legislature, The Middle Kingdom, Wealth

A collection of articles, essays, and blog post of merit. TOP BILLING “What Does a “Good” Adjustment Look Like?“ Michael Pettis, China’s Financial Markets (1 September 2014). This essay is long but excellent. It is also the best thing I have read about the Chinese economy in months. Two quotes to give readers the flavor of […]

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Geography and Chinese History – The Fractured Land Hypothesis

04 June, 2013Climate, Geography, History, The Middle Kingdom

Occasionally I come across attempts to explain the broad course of Chinese history in reference to China’s geography. These arguments tend to focus on the unified empires of Chinese history. Always contrasting Chinese history with the European experience, they suggest that China’s political unity and Europe’s perpetual disunity are reflections of the unbroken terrain of […]

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Notes From All Over (14/5/2013) – Historical Linguistics, Guanxi, and Scary Government Data Bases

15 May, 2013Climate, Culture, Geopolitics, Military Affairs, Near East, Notes From All Over, Oligarchy, The Middle Kingdom, Tyranny

A collection of articles, essays, and blog post of merit.This one is a bit smaller than normal; there are a few other posts or essays that deserve to go here, but I hope to devote entire posts to them at a later date. TOP BILLING:“An Introduction to Historical Linguistics’ – Terry Crowley and Claire Bowern. Part […]

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Global Temperature, 0-2000 AD

23 April, 2013Climate, History

This week a 78-man team of international researchers organized as the PAGES (Past Global Changes) 2k Network published a report for Nature Geoscience reconstructing Earth’s climate for the past 2,000 years. The report is the most comprehensive of its type yet published, and its focus on detailing regional (vs. hemispheric or global) temperatures is unique. Each […]

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Energy Use and Economic Growth: Some Basic Facts

13 March, 2013Climate, Complex Systems, Energy, Wealth

In a recent post discussing what we know about energy consumption and economic growth in post-recession America, I wrote something that is not true: “History has shown that increases in energy efficiency lead to more energy consumption, not less.” [1] I will repeat: I made a mistake. I will take this opportunity to explain both […]

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Notes From All Over (05/7/2010).

06 July, 2010Bharat, Climate, COIN, Culture, Environmentalism, Geography, Notes From All Over, Oligarchy, Pakistan, Wealth

A collection of articles, essays, and blog post of merit. THE REPUBLIC The Polarization of Job Opportunities in the U.S. Labor Market: Implications for Employment and Earnings David Autor. Center for American Progress. April 2010. In Law Schools, Grades Go Up, Just Like That Catherine Rampell. New York Times. 21 June 2010. Financial Revolving Doors: […]

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Notes From All Over 26/05/2010

26 May, 2010Africa, Bharat, Climate, Crazy Stuff That Costs Way Too Much Money, Dogs of War, History, Latin America, Military Affairs, Notes From All Over, Political Theory, The Middle Kingdom

A collection of articles, essays, and blog post of merit. THE REPUBLIC American Murder Mystery Hannah Rosen Atlantic Magazine. July 2008. Over the last decade crime rates in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, and Chicago have all shrunk. A great American success story? Not quite. While the crime rates of the big cities fell, […]

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Copenhagen: a Failure of American Statecraft

10 January, 2010Bharat, Climate, Diplomacy, Environmentalism, The Middle Kingdom, The Presidency

After a few weeks hiatus, I am now able to devote some time to blogging. The world has not held still in my absence; over the course of the last month the Lisbon Treaty was ratified, Washington decided to send 30,000 men to Afghanistan, Andhra Pradesh fragmented into two parts, MEND rebels drove Shell out […]

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The Blog Role Just Got a Bit Bigger

16 November, 2009Climate, Sustainability

I have added two new sites to the ‘Naturalist’ section of my blog roll, Yale Environment 360 and Wandering Gaia. Two articles posted at Yale Environment 360 prompted its addition to my feed reader. The first is an essay by Jonathan Foley titled “The Other Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis in Global Land Use”. The abstract […]

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Notes From All Over 9/10/2009

08 October, 2009Africa, Arabia, Bactria, Climate, Electoral Intrigues, Energy, Entangling Alliances, Epidemiology, Notes From All Over, Stealth Conflicts, The Middle Kingdom

TOP BILLING: Beijing’s Secret Succession Battle Willy Lam. Wall Street Journal. 24 September 2009. The Hakka People, China’s Leadership Caste “Curzon” ComingAnarchy.com 3 October 2009. Few people possess as much power as the ruling elites of the Chinese Communist Party. For American statesmen and diplomats, few topics have as much importance as the internal divisions […]

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Notes From all Over (14/09/14): China’s Economy, Samurai, and Adam Tooze’s Take on Europe

Geography and Chinese History – The Fractured Land Hypothesis

Notes From All Over (14/5/2013) – Historical Linguistics, Guanxi, and Scary Government Data Bases

Global Temperature, 0-2000 AD

Energy Use and Economic Growth: Some Basic Facts

Notes From All Over (05/7/2010).

Notes From All Over 26/05/2010

Copenhagen: a Failure of American Statecraft

The Blog Role Just Got a Bit Bigger

Notes From All Over 9/10/2009

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