Category: Resensi
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Making a Realist Case for Climate Change
Coming from applied science, learning and trying to understand International Relations is hard. We came across a lot of ‘It Depends’, depending on what point of view (POV) you’re looking from or into it. Making a realist case, as the book titled Climate Change and the Nation State: The Realist Case meaning that advocating or arguing for stronger climate actions taken by each country. However, as we read through the first chapter, some of the arguments will fall under ‘It Depends’ category. A few countries or region may benefitted from a warmer climate for their agriculture and trade/transport, but most…
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Edible Economics – When You’re Hungry, but You’re an Economic Professor…
The first culture shock you will experience as a foreigner is the food. Sometimes you feel that the food is bland, or sometimes you will find the food is way over your spice limit. Such exquisite experience may trigger a ‘hangry’ economist to write Edible Economics. Prof. Ha-Joon Chang also wrote several books on economics using catchy titles such as Kicking Away the Ladder – Development Strategy in Historical Perspective and 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism. Judging based on Edible Economics and several pages of Kicking Away the Ladder, he is focussing on development economics, especially around…
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