mercantilism, economic development, international development, trade policy, Africa, Asia, institutions, macrohistory, acemoglu, reversal of fortune
explanation, geographic determinism, economic development, exogenous factors, environmental determinism, Acemoglu, Sachs, Jared Diamond, philosophy of the social sciences
inferential statistics, philosophy of the social sciences, methodology, frequentist statistics, superpopulations, determinism, Bayesian statistics, subjectivist statistics, econometrics, economic development, macro-comparative research, visual methods, descriptive statistics, tabular analysis