Squiglyness Theory

The reasoning seems intuitively right, but you have to admit that it is still a bit weird.

Some nations are just doomed from the start, often because their borders are not squiggly enough. That's the conclusion of a recent NBER study by Harvard economists Alberto Alesina and Janina Matuszeski and NYU's Bill Easterly.

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