Just released: 


1000 Castaways: Fundamentals of Economics by Clint Ballinger. 2019, Aetiology Press.



Publications


  • Entry on “Environment and Regional Development” for the International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology (Published jointly by Wiley and the Association of American Geographers).
  • Ballinger, Clint. 2013. “Contingency is just so.” (Published in French as: “Contingence, déterminisme et « just-so stories »,” Tracés: Revue de sciences humaines, no. 24-1, p. 47-69.) Link (An English version is hosted on Hypotheses; there is also a PDF version with easier to read footnotes.)


Working papers


Initial Conditions as Exogenous Factors in Spatial Explanation



Classifying Contingency in the Social Sciences: Diachronic, Synchronic, and Deterministic Contingency


Determinism and the Antiquated Deontology of the Social Sciences


Why Geographic Factors are Necessary in Development Studies


Why inferential statistics are inappropriate for development studies and how the same data can be better used


Comparative Economics in a World Divided: Spatial Autocorrelation and World Regions


Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson: Natural Experiments or Geographic Theories of Development?


Mercantilism and the Rise of the West: Towards a Geography of Mercantilism


Development Datasets, Spatial Autocorrelation and Cluster Analysis


City, Society and State: How Transport Costs Shaped European Urban, Institutional and Political Development


Clint Ballinger, presentation 1 & 2 (Powerpoint)



Preface to "Initial Conditions as Exogenous Factors in Spatial Explanation"

Introduction to "Initial Conditions as Exogenous Factors in Spatial Explanation"

Chapter Two of "Initial Conditions as Exogenous Factors in Spatial Explanation"



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