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Can you provide any empirical evidence for this claim?

by gac55 10y ago

arjunnarayan 10y ago
I am not the GP, and I do not endorse the argument therein, but some evidence for some of his/her claims are provided by this article[1] by Daron Acemoglu, James Robinson and Thierry Verdier. I think Acemoglu and Robinson are the foremost experts in institutional state capacity, although I was not terribly persuaded by the model set forth in this paper (although I read an earlier revision a while ago). Some more easily readable press coverage of this paper is at [3] and [4]. As for the Pax Americana thesis, that is harder to get empirical evidence for [5], but some evidence for this thesis is that the NATO alliance explicitly has 1% GDP military expenditure minimums, which the non-US NATO allies have been shirking on for some while now[2]. So at least the underlying agreements that make up the international system do, on some level, endorse the "collective action" thesis of enforcing the pax. [1]: Asymmetric Growth and Institutions in an Interdependent World, http://economics.mit.edu/files/11377 http://economics.mit.edu/files/11377 [2]: Please do not misconstrue this statement to be some kind of endorsement of the current administration's dislike of NATO; I mean no such thing. President Obama acknowledged this, and lobbied multiple NATO members to increase their spending to meet the minimum, and he was no enemy of NATO. [3]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-10-09/americans-swedes-and-the-alchemy-of-innovation https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-10-09/americans... and here: [4]: http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2012/09/will-american-innovation-slow-if-we-go-cuddly.html http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2012/09/wil... [5]: While this article by Dan Drenzer is overall skeptical of the thesis from the perspective of this being a good deal for America, it does provide a lot of citations to articles that claim that this is a good deal for the rest of the world, and is a great start to examine the related work in this area: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/ISEC_a_00124?journalCode=isec http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/ISEC_a_00124...
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Can you provide any empirical evidence for this claim?

by gac55 10y ago

Can you provide any empirical evidence for this claim?

I am not the GP, and I do not endorse the argument therein, but some evidence for some of his/her claims are provided by this article[1] by Daron Acemoglu, James Robinson and Thierry Verdier. I think Acemoglu and Robinson are the foremost experts in institutional state capacity, although I was not terribly persuaded by the model set forth in this paper (although I read an earlier revision a while ago). Some more easily readable press coverage of this paper is at [3] and [4]. As for the Pax Americana thesis, that is harder to get empirical evidence for [5], but some evidence for this thesis is that the NATO alliance explicitly has 1% GDP military expenditure minimums, which the non-US NATO allies have been shirking on for some while now[2]. So at least the underlying agreements that make up the international system do, on some level, endorse the "collective action" thesis of enforcing the pax. [1]: Asymmetric Growth and Institutions in an Interdependent World, http://economics.mit.edu/files/11377 http://economics.mit.edu/files/11377 [2]: Please do not misconstrue this statement to be some kind of endorsement of the current administration's dislike of NATO; I mean no such thing. President Obama acknowledged this, and lobbied multiple NATO members to increase their spending to meet the minimum, and he was no enemy of NATO. [3]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-10-09/americans-swedes-and-the-alchemy-of-innovation https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-10-09/americans... and here: [4]: http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2012/09/will-american-innovation-slow-if-we-go-cuddly.html http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2012/09/wil... [5]: While this article by Dan Drenzer is overall skeptical of the thesis from the perspective of this being a good deal for America, it does provide a lot of citations to articles that claim that this is a good deal for the rest of the world, and is a great start to examine the related work in this area: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/ISEC_a_00124?journalCode=isec http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/ISEC_a_00124...

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