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Filipe Campante

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Bloomberg Distinguished Professor (SAIS & Carey Business School), Johns Hopkins University. Political economy, Brazil, and a little bit of futebol.

  1. Right, see, because we use “discrimination” as shorthand for “illegal and harmful discrimination,” the Trump movement is trying to outlaw the basic concept of distinguishing between one thing and another, like a bank seeing and acting on the difference between a real business and a crypto scam

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  2. Interesting paper by @sgehlbach.bsky.social, @chrisblattman.bsky.social and Yu. Even though Trump is definitely trying to build the personalist type, I suspect that even if autocracy manages to consolidate in the US, it will be a more institutionalized variety… www.nber.org/papers/w3409...

    Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

    The Personalist Penalty: Varieties of Autocracy and Economic Growth

    Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

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  3. The problem with the horse-race coverage of Trump II is that, across the board, he is destroying nonzero sum arrangements: rule of law, institutions, collective goods, trade relationships, alliances.

    So what the media portrays as a win for Trump is usually a net loss for everyone, including the US.

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  4. Not to pick on anyone in particular, but here’s why the positive responses to the Columbia “deal” were so obviously and predictably misguided. There is no “settlement” possible, only an unending loop of blackmail.

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  5. Favoring friends and disfavoring who supports the opposition? “Well, it’s always like that, right?”Gerrymandering to make it hard for the opposition to win? “Oldest trick in the book!” Interfering about independent agencies? “Do you remember that presidents X and Y complained about them too?”

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