In this video, I am exploring few aspects of who voted for which party in the 1950 in several countries, with close focus on social democratic and communist parties

In this episode, I am exploring some statistics in comparing stable democracies of Europe and the Anglo-Saxon world with less democratic states in Europe and Latin America. The focus is on education, communication media, industrialization and urbanization. There are some surprising facts

In this episode, I am exploring some economics concepts around monopoly and I am giving the example of Microsoft, which continues to have a monopoly on operating system, largely kept via bribing organizations

Corruption scandal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_licensing_corruption_scandal

In this video, I am describing and discussing some figures and tables from some book on democratic transition of ex-communist countries

In this video, I am exploring few ideas found in some tables and figures regarding the Eastern European transition: on how did Czechoslovakian democracy function, some speeches of Gorbachev in which he rejected pluralism and how Baltic people view the themselves and the system in the transition period

In this episode, I am exploring what Spanish, and Latin American population relate to democracy having in mind their histories of military dictatorship. I am using tables and figures from prominent political scientist's research. Juan Linz and Alfred Stepan were the prominent political scientists in terms of democratic transition in the recent past

In this book, I am exploring several quotations that I found interesting in Emil Cioran's Book of Delusions. Especially interesting are his rules for defeating pessimism, which I quote in the last part of this episode. Enjoy!

In this podcast, I am referring to some tables I found in a leading economics textbook, to compare two countries in terms of their tax systems and how their governments spend their money. For example, did you know that South Africa spends most of its money on education, making it one of the highest countries investing in education in the whole world?

In this episode, I am touching on the details of UK government's revenues and spendings. I go through revenues, I compare then with other G7 countries, then I analyze the various sources of Uk govt revenue, then I touch on taxation and various spending areas, also historically, then I end with historical expenditure as % of GDP and the public debt

In this episode, I am discussing some of my favorite quotes from Cioran's Book of Delusions. This book was written in Romanian language by the Romanian French nihilist philosopher.