My Summary of Fukuyama's Political Order and Political Decay

The first book I read that contains so long list of reference is Basic Economics of Thomas Sowell. When I read this book, I was surprised that it ended at 70% of its Kindle version. Another 30% is the long list of reference. Clearly,...

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A Review on The Commanding Height

As its title suggests, in this book the authors attempt to contemplate on who should control your life, who should run the economy, or how laws should be based on. This is the never-ending debate on big government versus small government, Keynesianism versus Classical Economics, liberal democracy versus communism, dictatorship, monarchy you name it. For those who are curious how popular economics can change life, this book is...

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A Note on From Dictatorship to Democracy

In Why Nations Fail or related topics especially those of economic development or political science, we cannot see how to develop a country suppose you were a victim in a failed country. At least you are not the leader of a country [you would not read this piece of writing if you were!]. This book attempts to give guidelines, at least hope, for the victims, the suppressed, of dictatorship to topple dictatorship to set up a lasting...

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The Worldly Philosophers

A graduate student who could write such a good book is an exceptionally brilliant person. His novel style of writing manifested in this book keeps readers curious and allows readers to be back in the time of those economic thinkers.  Although...

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Theoretical Research vs. Empirical Research in Economics

Back in Waseda University, I was wondering what a theoretical research in economics is and how different it is from an empirical one. Most students from Cambodia, at least, choose empirical research for both undergraduate and graduate studies. I do not like empirical research because  I would have to look at computer screen with millions of data there. It took me quite a long time to see the difference and finally I chose...

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