Vladimir Chlouba
What the 2024 Namibian Election Can Tell Us About Southern Africa’s Future
Few observers of African politics look to Namibia to anticipate continent-wide trends. On November 27 however, the country could become a...
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Vladimir Chlouba
Jul 19, 2023
Stuff Happens and Sometimes It Changes World History
Archduke Franz Ferdinand arrived in Sarajevo in late June 1914 unaware that a squad of six assassins was already waiting for him. The...
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Vladimir Chlouba
May 20, 2023
Navigating the Academic Job Market: N of 1
The most grueling part of getting my PhD was not writing the hundreds of pages that turned into my dissertation (that was a close...
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Vladimir Chlouba
May 27, 2021
Learning to Process Difficult Emotions Through Planking
One of the things gym aficionados struggle to explain to fitness neophytes is that frequent physical activity can develop a wide variety...
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Vladimir Chlouba
Aug 15, 2020
A Guide to Academic Research Articles for the Casual Reader
This post is meant to serve as an introduction to the art of reading academic research articles for casual, non-expert readers such as...
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Vladimir Chlouba
Apr 27, 2020
The Importance of Ritualized Mornings for Personal Productivity
One of the side effects of the coronavirus pandemic is undoubtedly the challenge of remaining productive under lockdown. Many of my...
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Vladimir Chlouba
Jan 7, 2020
Learning to Love What You Hate
I could be wrong but I think that the key to human success is the ability to make ourselves do things we essentially do not want to do....
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Vladimir Chlouba
Sep 5, 2019
On Overcoming Fear
Perhaps the most daunting challenge to anyone who hopes to live a life well lived is that it involves incessant balancing of essentially...
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Vladimir Chlouba
Aug 19, 2019
Studying Traditional Governance in Namibia
I spent nearly all of July and August of this year travelling across Namibia. This time, my goal was not to enjoy a long vacation, though...
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Vladimir Chlouba
Nov 15, 2017
Talking to the Other Side: When We Learn and When We Learn Less
We are living in an era of considerable polarization. A simple definition of polarization might be something like this: the tendency for...
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Vladimir Chlouba
Aug 7, 2017
Rozdíl mezi „College“ a „University“
V posledních několika letech jsem byl účastníkem mnoha konverzací, které si kladly za cíl jasně definovat rozdíly mezi termíny „college“...
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Vladimir Chlouba
Jul 30, 2017
Germany’s Trade Surplus: It’s Structural, Stupid!
Just when we thought that the long-discredited economic doctrine of mercantilism has died, it seems to have made a comeback. Indeed, even...
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Vladimir Chlouba
Jul 19, 2017
When Economic Theory and Political Reality Diverge
One of the most captivating debates of the last decade that has engaged academic economists and the general public alike has concerned...
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Vladimir Chlouba
Jul 16, 2017
An Undelivered Commencement Speech
This is a commencement speech which I wrote in the months preceding my college graduation in May 2016. The speech was never delivered but...
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Vladimir Chlouba
Jul 15, 2017
Research Trip to Zambia
I have just returned from a two-month research trip to Southern Africa which took me to Namibia, Botswana, and Zambia. Although I have...
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Vladimir Chlouba
Jun 11, 2017
The Identity of Nowhere
In September 2016, the Nobel laureate Robert J. Shiller penned an opinion piece titled The Coming Anti-National Revolution. In his...
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Vladimir Chlouba
Jun 8, 2017
Exuberant Equities in the Age of Trump
It should not surprise us if the first half of 2017 became known as the prime example of the markets’ unhinged proclivity to release...
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Vladimir Chlouba
Jun 3, 2017
The Unfortunate Nature of the Discourse on Climate Change
The recent infamous decision by Donald Trump to withdraw from the Paris Accord, which is the result of a global effort to combat climate...
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Vladimir Chlouba
May 31, 2017
A Few Thoughts on Randomness, Probability, and Social Science
Practically every student who has ever taken a course in regression analysis and statistics in general will recall that phenomena are...
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Vladimir Chlouba
May 27, 2017
Omámeni Babišem
Jeden z posledních průzkumů veřejného mínění, který mne v nedávné době nepatřičně zaujal, informuje o relativně robustní důvěře značné...
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