Why this blog?

I regularly write short pieces for newspapers and magazines in which I try to connect things happening in Ukraine to some (academic) economics literature - but sometimes something interesting happens in Ukraine (or the world) but I can't really write a one page piece on it - this blog is aimed for exactly such occassions.

The title of this blog comes from my earlier website

http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~tcoupe/

My more recent official website can be found on

http://www.kse.org.ua/people/faculty/coupe