
Roy A Frye
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Roy A Frye
@RoyAFrye1
Pathologist by profession, interests include human genomics, biology of aging, neuroscience/psychology, evolutionary biology, anthropology, economics/politics.




A fundamental lesson from my posts these last two weeks on modernization, industrial policy, and development is that development economics should be about understanding why South Korea got rich but Bolivia did not. The current field has largely given up on that question. Sharply identified RCTs on small micro programs are a fine way to publish in the AER and get tenure at a fancy university, but a profession that knows everything about microfinance impact evaluations and almost nothing about industrialization has misallocated its own intellectual capital on a pretty heroic scale. Four images of Seoul:













@jacobkornbluh Which of those countries have spent the last few years slaughtering and starving tens of thousands of children? We know you people don't see non-Jewish lives as holding any value whatsoever but at least try to understand why non-Jews might view things somewhat differently lol



















To Address Farm Labor Shortage, Trump Administration Turns to Migrant Workers — NYT

If hospitals were MAHA 😂



Almost half of Ellis Island’ers returned home in the 1910’s. America didn’t have welfare. You made it or you went back. Today freeloaders cross the border via telegram groups and NGO’s give them an app and bank paperwork to scam every taxpayer funded system we have.









