Thank you all so much for your support! Today, I spoke to a colleague who also wrote a critique of AJR. He said, "Honestly, I felt alone." He's not alone. We may be a tiny minority, but I believe it is a growing tiny minority. This is not the 1990s, the world is changing. Mine is not a critique of AJR personally, whom I think are accomplished, prolific, and super smart in their methodology and storytelling. But I hope to raise awareness about the climate that uncritically celebrates their claims, and the ideology and double standards implicit in a profession that claims objectivity.
It's persuasive and exposes the biased Western scholarship and unacademic assumption towards Non-European countries political, economic and social institutions. Nothing novel about the Nobel Prize
When one of the two larges countries in the world is an "outlier", your paper is crap. Isaac Samuel's article on substack also explains all the many things they got wrong about African countries.
Thank you all so much for your support! Today, I spoke to a colleague who also wrote a critique of AJR. He said, "Honestly, I felt alone." He's not alone. We may be a tiny minority, but I believe it is a growing tiny minority. This is not the 1990s, the world is changing. Mine is not a critique of AJR personally, whom I think are accomplished, prolific, and super smart in their methodology and storytelling. But I hope to raise awareness about the climate that uncritically celebrates their claims, and the ideology and double standards implicit in a profession that claims objectivity.
A fantastic explanation and great insights.
Hugely insightful! And a handy companion piece to the author's very insightful commentary on Twitter on these issues.
It's persuasive and exposes the biased Western scholarship and unacademic assumption towards Non-European countries political, economic and social institutions. Nothing novel about the Nobel Prize
Great insights
An excellent piece!
When one of the two larges countries in the world is an "outlier", your paper is crap. Isaac Samuel's article on substack also explains all the many things they got wrong about African countries.