Interested in Philosophy of the Social Sciences - philosophical problems of statistical interpretation (inferential and descriptive statistics and 'apparent populations', explanation and causality, spatial explanation, problems with economic development theory.
"Clint Ballinger began his interest in economic development in the very long run while at The University of Texas at Austin. While there he worked with the World's oldest accounting tokens (Mesopotamian, 8000-3500 BC) under Denise Schmandt-Besserat and researched the development of both State and credit-money with a special interest in the debt-deflation work of Irving Fisher. For his…
Interested in Philosophy of the Social Sciences - philosophical problems of statistical interpretation (inferential and descriptive statistics and 'apparent populations', explanation and causality, spatial explanation, problems with economic development theory.
"Clint Ballinger began his interest in economic development in the very long run while at The University of Texas at Austin. While there he worked with the World's oldest accounting tokens (Mesopotamian, 8000-3500 BC) under Denise Schmandt-Besserat and researched the development of both State and credit-money with a special interest in the debt-deflation work of Irving Fisher. For his M.A. in Political Science at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill he focused on modern uneven economic development, and went on to specialize in the interpretation of global econometric data for his PhD in Geography at Cambridge University."
