Clint Ballinger

Clint Ballinger
Alma mater	University of Texas at Austin Southern Methodist University University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of Cambridge

Clint J. Ballinger is an American social scientist who writes about the misapplication of inferential statistics in the social sciences, international development, as well as geographic determinism from a consequentialist ethical perspective.

Ballinger received his B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin, studying long-term economic and political development in the Anthropology department, writing his senior thesis under Professor Denise Schmandt-Besserat, his Master's degree in 2001 at the Department of Political Science of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and his PhD in 2008 at the Department of Geography of the University of Cambridge with a dissertation titled Initial Conditions as Exogenous Factors in Spatial Explanation. He also holds a Master of Liberal Arts from Southern Methodist University.

Publications

• City, Society, and State: The Role of Transport Costs in European State Development Thesis/Dissertation, 103 p. University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, 2001.^[1]
• Classifying Contingency in the Social Sciences: Diachronic, Synchronic, and Deterministic Contingency. In: International Social Science Journal 2007 ISSN 0020-8701 ^[2]
• Initial Conditions as Exogenous Factors in Spatial Explanation. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, 2008.
• Determinism and the Antiquated Deontology of the Social Sciences. 2008
• Initial Conditions and the ‘Open Systems’ Argument against Laws of Nature. In: Metaphysica. Vol. 9, Issue 1, pp. 17–31 ISSN 1437-2053 doi:10.1007/s12133-007-0019-2
• Comparative Economics in a World Divided: Spatial Autocorrelation and World Regions. 2011
• Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson: Natural Experiments or Geographic Theories of Development. 2011
• Two Fatal Flaws in the 'Reversal of Fortune' (Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson 2002) Argument. 2011
• Mercantilism and Uneven Development. 2011
• World Regions, International Development and Cluster Analysis. 2011
• Why inferential statistics are inappropriate for development studies and how the same data can be better used.,^[3] February 2011
• Why Geographic Factors are Necessary in Development Studies Working Paper Series of the Social Science Research Network, 2011 ^[4]

References

1. ^ "City, Society, and State: The Role of Transport Costs in European State Development" get cited
2. ^ "Classifying Contingency: Diachronic, Synchronic, and Deterministic Contingency" University of Cambridge, Department of Geography
3. ^ Working copy "Why inferential statistics are inappropriate for development studies", mpra.ub.uni-muenchen
4. ^ "Why Geographic Factors are Necessary in Development Studies", SSRN, February 20, 2011

External links

• clintballinger website
• Google scholar
• http://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/pba871.htm

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