Stanley Feder, former CIA analyst: We found that [national intelligence] analyses, even when they were right, were vague compared to [Bueno de Mesquita's] forecasts. If you hit the target, that's great. But if you hit the bull's eye -- that's amazing.
Fascinating article, and the reader comments at the page are mostly vicious. S’cool.
The Political Roots of Poverty
The National Interest | Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Hilton L. Root
Posted on 07/26/2002 8:47:10 AM EDT by Valin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/722637/posts
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita on Democracies and Dictatorships
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2007/02/bruce_bueno_de.html
Posted on 09/15/2007 10:37:02 AM EDT by cool2007
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1897004/posts
I read he article and found it quite intersting. I’d not heard of this guy or these ideas before, so I thank you for posting it. I wonder though, does he have anything to say about Hillary ? I guess he did say he won’t participate in campaigns, but what’s to stop others from doing so ? Some of Hillary’s “manna for the masses” ideas make me wonder.