• Ballinger, Clint. Forthcoming. 'Contingency is just so'. Tracés: Revue de sciences humaines. no. 24, “The Real and the Possible in Social Science”. (In French)    (An English version will be hosted on hypotheses )
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• ​Initial Conditions as Exogenous Factors in Spatial Explanation
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• Classifying Contingency in the Social Sciences: Diachronic, Synchronic, and Deterministic Contingency

• Determinism and the Antiquated Deontology of the Social Sciences

• Why Geographic Factors are Necessary in Development Studies

• Why inferential statistics are inappropriate for development studies and how the same data can be better used

• Comparative Economics in a World Divided: Spatial Autocorrelation and World Regions

• Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson: Natural Experiments or Geographic Theories of Development?

• Mercantilism and the Rise of the West: Towards a Geography of Mercantilism

• Development Datasets, Spatial Autocorrelation and Cluster Analysis

• City, Society and State: How Transport Costs Shaped European Urban, Institutional and Political Development​​

• Clint Ballinger, presentation 1 & 2 (Powerpoint)
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• Preface to "Initial Conditions as Exogenous Factors in Spatial Explanation"
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• Introduction to "Initial Conditions as Exogenous Factors in Spatial Explanation"
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• Chapter Two of "Initial Conditions as Exogenous Factors in Spatial Explanation"
  
  
  
  ​​Current project: Documenting the successes, failures and controversies of the social sciences in policy recommendations, social policy, urban planning, international development aid and other areas. At Clint Ballinger. (Older posts at Academic Scribblers: Social Science and its critics​)
  
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