Thomas Brailey

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Interesting new piece on the state's outsourcing of violence in Nigeria. "Renting political violence: A political economy of rents, access and violence delegation"
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

It's very human to only double check that a process is working when you get a weird result. It's also very bad practice, because sometimes your "right" result is due to a bad process and you will be misled. Social scientists (economists) do this kind of asymmetric checking.
arxiv.org/pdf/2508.20069

Empires of Grain: State Building and Market Integration in French West Africa, 1915-1950 – African Economic History Network Subscribe to the bi-monthly AEHN Newsletter.

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On Africa’s “arbitrary” borders and their alleged impacts Borders are not the leading cause of state weakness or political and economic underdevelopment in Africa

What are we missing when we talk about the arbitrariness of African borders and their economic/political impacts: kenopalo.substack.com/p/on-africas...

Looks like the DHS (the good one) is back with support from the Gates foundation! dhsprogram.com/Who-We-Are/N...

I'm delighted to advertise an exciting job as centre manager, helping me build Oxford's new Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM). We start this academic year and aim to attract as new faculty some of the world's top people in computational, experimental and qualitative methods.