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More on The Spirit Level

Peppereornpero – More on The Spirit Level There are quite a few interesting comments on my earlier post on The Spirit Level on Economist...

Hobi Nulis 28 Jan, 2026

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DeLanda on concepts, knobs, and phase transitions

Peppereornpero – DeLanda on concepts, knobs, and phase transitions image: Carnap's notes on Frege's Begriffsschrift seminar Part o...

Hobi Nulis 25 Jan, 2026

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Institutions, procedures, norms

Peppereornpero – Institutions, procedures, norms One of the noteworthy aspects of the framing offered by Victor Nee and Mary Brinton of th...

Hobi Nulis 25 Jan, 2026

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Connecting the dots

Peppereornpero – Connecting the dots There isn't very much transparency about the deep structure of almost any complex modern society....

Hobi Nulis 25 Jan, 2026

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Realism and methodology

Peppereornpero – Realism and methodology Methodology has to do with the strategies and heuristics through which we attempt to understand ...

Hobi Nulis 24 Jan, 2026

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Organizational dysfunction

Peppereornpero – Organizational dysfunction What is a dysfunction when it comes to the normal workings of an organization? In order to id...

Hobi Nulis 21 Jan, 2026

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What holds a country together?

Peppereornpero – What holds a country together? When you consider the enormous differences that exist across regions and traditions in the...

Hobi Nulis 20 Jan, 2026

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How Jim Crow worked

Peppereornpero – How Jim Crow worked Understanding history is partly about understanding some of the dry facts of social sequence and caus...

Hobi Nulis 15 Jan, 2026

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Entertainment as a valuable thing

Peppereornpero – Entertainment as a valuable thing Quite a bit of the GDP of the United States goes into a broad category we can call ...

Hobi Nulis 15 Jan, 2026

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