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Noel Maurer
I'm a university professor.
Interests: My current research asks whether foreign governments or international institutions can improve economic governance. Is it possible to alter a country’s property rights system from the outside? This research has two prongs. The first is a historical work, tentatively entitled Imperial Experiments: Intervention, Economic Growth, and Property Rights, which tests various hypotheses about the success and failure of American attempts to improve economic governance outside the United States and protect the property rights of U.S. investors before World War II. The second is a series of contemporary case studies about attempts to alter nations’ internal economic governance from the outside: bilateral investment treaties, investor protection clauses in trade agreements, conditional loans, the “mortgaging” of export revenues, vulture funds, and military intervention.
I also watch a lot of baseball, enjoy very bad music, and do a lot of travelling. The travel tends to be either in total luxury, or to places where I need to wear body armor and live in constant fear of, well, death.
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The trillion dollar coin
Posted Oct 3, 2021 at The Power and the Money
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Observatorio argentino 50: Déjense de jod ...
Posted Sep 17, 2021 at The Power and the Money
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Observatorio argentino 49: Post-election roundup
Posted Sep 17, 2021 at The Power and the Money
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Observatorio argentino 48: the circular firing squad forms up!
Posted Sep 15, 2021 at The Power and the Money
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Observatorio argentino 46: All this will PASO
Posted Sep 15, 2021 at The Power and the Money
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Observatorio argentino 47: Esto PASO de castaño oscuro
Posted Sep 15, 2021 at The Power and the Money
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Renewables are not causing blackouts in Texas
Posted Feb 15, 2021 at The Power and the Money
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The 2020 Horserace (regressions)
Posted Feb 1, 2021 at The Power and the Money
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What’s the matter with Texas?
Posted Nov 15, 2020 at The Power and the Money
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Make Canada Greater: What would change if New York joined Confederation?
Posted Nov 3, 2020 at The Power and the Money
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The Purple Rose of Texas is here
Posted Oct 30, 2020 at The Power and the Money
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What would it take to get one billion Americans?
Posted Oct 25, 2020 at The Power and the Money
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Trump’s executive orders are not unconstitutional but they are a sign that the Constitution is breaking
Posted Aug 10, 2020 at The Power and the Money
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It is hard to get Manuel Bartlett to understand things when his paycheck depends on him not understanding it
Posted May 23, 2020 at The Power and the Money
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The Barber of Buenos Aires cuts again
Posted Apr 17, 2020 at The Power and the Money
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The Trump administration is not joining OPEC and the deal will not last
Posted Apr 14, 2020 at The Power and the Money
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Covid-19 and American oil production, in gory institutional detail
Posted Apr 12, 2020 at The Power and the Money
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Some crude nonsense: Trump, AMLO, and OPEC
Posted Apr 10, 2020 at The Power and the Money
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The Chilean senate is no longer completely terrible but ...
Posted Jan 8, 2020 at The Power and the Money
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Why does Chile need a new constitution?
Posted Jan 6, 2020 at The Power and the Money
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Observatorio argentino 45: Maybe Argentines did not care as much about the election as they claimed
Posted Nov 7, 2019 at The Power and the Money
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Who voted for Macri and why? We know the wrong answer, at least
Posted Oct 28, 2019 at The Power and the Money
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The problem with Chile
Posted Oct 26, 2019 at The Power and the Money
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Nots on the new Brexit deal
Posted Oct 17, 2019 at The Power and the Money
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One of these things is not like the others, trade war edition
Posted Oct 4, 2019 at The Power and the Money
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