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From DogHouseDiaries: [Originally posted at The Incidental Economist]...
Just published, by Mialon, Hugo M., and Sue H. Mialon. 2013. “Go Figure: The Strategy of Nonliteral Speech.”American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 5(2): 186-212: We develop a model of figurative or indirect speech, which may convey a meaning that differs from...
This post’s title is not designed to drive web traffic from TMZ. No, really: President Obama has made it not only possible but necessary for me to take Ms. Swift’s name in vain as part of a quick follow-up to...
My colleague Paul Wahlbeck sent a letter to his senator, Tim Kaine, asking him to support National Science Foundation funding of political science research and to oppose the Coburn amendment. This is Kaine’s reply: I’ve always thought of myself as...
According to a piece by Laura Leslie at WRAL: A resolution filed by Republican lawmakers would allow North Carolina to declare an official religion, in violation of the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Bill of Rights, and seeks to nullify...