by Sam Wilkin | Feb 5, 2019 | Blog
Why does the advent of a major new media technology so often coincide with political upheaval or even revolution? To name a few examples: the broadcast radio and the rise of Adolf Hitler; the cassette tape and the Iranian Revolution; the fax machine and the fall of...
by Sam Wilkin | Jun 2, 2016 | Blog
Updated April 2019 I’ve been employed to analyze geopolitics and the world economy for about twenty years now, which means, alarmingly, I’ve got a track record. (Most of my publicly-available articles are now posted on this blog.) What did I get wrong, and what did I...
by Sam Wilkin | Apr 28, 2014 | Blog
Nigeria recently announced a statistical revision that at a stroke nearly doubled the size of the country’s economy. The International Monetary Fund, after careful review, endorsed the revised estimate as accurate. That said, there was some statistical trickery...
