This is an assortment of tasting notes from grad school covering Californian reds, mostly Cabernet Sauvignon and related blends (I seem to have misplaced a note on a mid-1980s Stony Hill Chardonnay). Compared to vintage Bordeaux, these were remarkably consistent in quality – this could have been down to shipping issues magnifying bottle variation – […]
Tasting through aged classified growths
One of my adventures while in grad school involved seeking out bottles from Bordeaux’s best producers with significant age. While I tended to avoid the legendary vintages of 1961, 1982, and 1990, I focused on the better of the more ‘traditional’ vintages. This meant that while the vintage conditions were often imperfect, these were to […]
Electoral institutions and trade protection in Public Choice
Electoral systems and trade-policy outcomes: the effects of personal-vote incentives on barriers to international trade, with Patrick Wagner, is now available online in Public Choice. The article is available through open access thanks to an agreement between UCL and Springer Nature. From the abstract: Despite established benefits in free trade, protectionism persists to varying degrees […]
Pacific International Politics Conference
The third meeting of the Pacific International Politics Conference (PIPC) was held at Hong Kong University at the beginning of this month. I received the call for papers through the International Political Economy Society (IPES) email list earlier this year, and the combination of attractive location, substantive focus, and friendly (and established) organizers convinced me […]
Journal metrics
I keep a list journals that represent possible outlets for my various research projects. Each year, when Scimago updates their SJR rankings, I go through my list and update my metrics.(1) I like the SJR scores because they reflect the weighted importance of references, rather than a simple citation count. Rather than treating references to […]
Perspectives in (International) Political Economy
Welcome to the latest (and hopefully permanent) location of my infrequent blog, which has led a stuttering and meandering existence since my grad-school days. The frequency of early posts was limited by the incessent reading and research demands of a rigorous PhD program. More recently, these have been replaced with the infinitely more demanding student-welfare […]