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Sorting Hat takes the concept of Hogwarts' Sorting Hat and applies it to the classification standard defined in Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty, by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson.
Acemoglu and Robinson define, based on research of failed nations, the standard of whether societies are either Inclusive or Extractive among their economic and political institutions.
History clearly demonstrates there is strong synergy between economic and political institutions.
Our site codes the Why Nations Fail standard through it’s design using the standard color scheme of green is good, red is bad. It starts with the logo, indicating we’re looking at the big picture (entire hat) and determining if issues and events are helping to build our country up/better, via more inclusion, or break it down down/worse, via more extraction.
The color scheme carries through to the classification and presentation of the news articles. Each applicable article is coded to reflect whether the decision, policy, action, etc. will BUILD UP the country's economic and political institutions via INCLUSION, or TEAR DOWN the country's economic and political institutions via EXTRACTION.
Inclusive societies have economic institutions featuring secure private property, an unbiased system of law, and a provision of public services providing a level playing field in which people can exchange and contract; they also permit the entry of new businesses and allow people to choose their careers.
Inclusive economic institutions foster economic activity, productivity growth, and economic prosperity.
We will refer to political institutions that are sufficiently centralized and pluralistic as Inclusive political institutions.
Extractive political institutions concentrate power in the hands of a narrow elite and place few constraints on the exercise of this power. Economic institutions are then often structured by this elite to extract resources from the rest of the society. Extractive economic institutions thus naturally accompany extractive political institutions.
When either of these conditions (economic or political inclusion) fails, we will refer to the institutions as Extractive political institutions.
WHAT WE DO
Sorting Hat applies the Inclusive or Extractive standard of Economic and Political actions demonstrated in applicable daily news articles, then aggregates the articles to Information of the daily change. Finally, daily statistics are aggregated into Knowledge all Americans can then use for Economic, Political and Cultural decisions. In other words, we are taking today’s news and moving it up the DIKW pyramid to vastly increase its value to you and all Americans.
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Sorting Hat takes the concept of Hogwarts' Sorting Hat and applies it to the classification standard defined in Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty, by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson.
Acemoglu and Robinson define, based on research of failed nations, the standard of whether societies are either Inclusive or Extractive among their economic and political institutions.
History clearly demonstrates there is strong synergy between economic and political institutions.
Our site codes the Why Nations Fail standard through it’s design using the standard color scheme of green is good, red is bad. It starts with the logo, indicating we’re looking at the big picture (entire hat) and determining if issues and events are helping to build our country up/better, via more inclusion, or break it down down/worse, via more extraction.
The color scheme carries through to the classification and presentation of the news articles. Each applicable article is coded to reflect whether the decision, policy, action, etc. will BUILD UP the country's economic and political institutions via INCLUSION, or TEAR DOWN the country's economic and political institutions via EXTRACTION.
Inclusive societies have economic institutions featuring secure private property, an unbiased system of law, and a provision of public services providing a level playing field in which people can exchange and contract; they also permit the entry of new businesses and allow people to choose their careers.
Inclusive economic institutions foster economic activity, productivity growth, and economic prosperity.
We will refer to political institutions that are sufficiently centralized and pluralistic as Inclusive political institutions.
Extractive political institutions concentrate power in the hands of a narrow elite and place few constraints on the exercise of this power. Economic institutions are then often structured by this elite to extract resources from the rest of the society. Extractive economic institutions thus naturally accompany extractive political institutions.
When either of these conditions (economic or political inclusion) fails, we will refer to the institutions as Extractive political institutions.
WHAT WE DO
Sorting Hat applies the Inclusive or Extractive standard of Economic and Political actions demonstrated in applicable daily news articles, then aggregates the articles to Information of the daily change. Finally, daily statistics are aggregated into Knowledge all Americans can then use for Economic, Political and Cultural decisions. In other words, we are taking today’s news and moving it up the DIKW pyramid to vastly increase its value to you and all Americans.
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Please click "Proceed" below to advance to Active User's Home Page.
PLEASE DO NOT BOOKMARK THIS PAGE
“It is the function of mass agitation to exploit all the grievances, hopes, aspirations, prejudices, fears, and ideals of all the special groups that make up our society, social, religious, economic, racial, political. Stir them up. Set one against the other. Divide and conquer. That’s the way to soften up a democracy.”
J. Edgar Hoover, Masters of Deceit
J. Edgar Hoover, Masters of Deceit