I could really be a bore on this. Short version is DeMesquita describes the underlying mechanism of the effects Sachs observes, and if you switch in AI/ML for o

I could really be a bore on this. Short version is DeMesquita describes the underlying mechanism of the effects Sachs observes, and if you switch in AI/ML for oil or mineral wealth in Sachs model, you can make predictions about some of those consequences using DeMesquita. Long version involves introducing and describing the relationship between their ideas. DeMesquita gets rejected as being too abstract, but his model has useful predictive power.