Speed Of History

In the meantime here is a picture for you.

First, there is this paper on the condition in Somalia:

Many people believe that Somalia’s economy has been in chaos since the collapse of its national government in 1991. We take a comparative institutional approach to examine Somalia’s performance relative to other African countries both when Somalia had a government and during its extended period of anarchy. We find that although Somalia is poor, its relative economic performance has improved during its period of statelessness. We also describe how Somalia has provided basic law and order and a currency, which have enabled the country to achieve the coordination that has led to improvements in its standard of living.

And then this rather biting video response:

I was going to use the above mentioned FLUX OF PINK INDIANS album as the focus of this months column but instead found this blog entry which is much better than anything I could write about it.

Now off to figure out what to write about all over again.

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