The missing candidate
The economy, stupid!
It’s the economy, stupid! To people reading about the Taiwanese presidential election in foreign newspapers, it was all a matter of relations to China and possible parallels with Tibet. But what Taiwanese people really cared about was the sluggish state of the economy and the corruption scandals of the current DPP regime. My man, Ma […]
Irrational voters
My students all seem to be going back home to their families today for the presidential vote. In some cases the trips are long and time/money consuming. I don’t have the heart to tell them about the most celebrated of all political science theories — about the irrationality of voting. It goes like this: since […]
Funky rhythm
Photographs
Problems of the agricultural revolution
Our new car
It was great fun to take the bus and to talk to cab drivers, but it was too difficult to do shopping and we didn’t see any of Taiwan — we had to get a new car. And here it is! A spanking new Suzuki Swift. It’s everything our old KIA was not — peppy, […]
Spring
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