In the Acemoglu and Robinson tour de force, I find one of the greatest elite wealth-making (for themselves) strategies of all time to be underemphasized.
In this essay, I explain how greater elite polarization and the growth in media choice have reinforced the partisan divide in factual beliefs.
It is now shorthand for the use of detailed statistics in sport, particularly around recruitment – these days, a great many elite sport teams accept that fracking raw data produces insights the human eye, no matter how experienced, will miss.
It caused great alarm within elite circles in Saudi Arabia and sent ripples throughout the region.
During the 20th century, folklore and folk speech had a great influence on elite literature on writers as different as Franz Kafka and Carl Sandburg, Selma Lagerlöf and Kawabata Yasunari, Martin Buber and Isaac Bashevis Singer.
It is one of the great things about elite level sport that success can often be pared back to a single, chasteningly simple winning element.
Earlier this week I watched a current affairs programme where a vice-chancellor talked about the great things his elite university would be able to do in a deregulated Australian higher education sector.
Here are the links: Quinton Coples, Part I: The Importance of Pad Level Quinton Coples, Part II: Pad Level And The Pass Rush Quinton Coples, Part III: Stacking Up To Jason Pierre-Paul A few outtakes from Bramel: Pierre-Paul demonstrates how great technique and elite athleticism are combined to generate explosive plays that can demoralize an offense.
"Our marketing campaign this year was 'For Club and Country', connecting these players who play for their country on the world stage with their MLS club … Coming out of the World Cup our message is going to be: we play soccer in people's home markets in great stadiums with elite players, guys like Clint Dempsey, Michael Bradley, Tim Cahill".
