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May 13, 2013 10:00 AM Charts, in One Chart

From DogHouseDiaries: [Originally posted at The Incidental Economist]...

By Austin Frakt

April 30, 2013 12:20 PM An Economics Paper for Joe Biden, Literally (or Not)

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...

By Austin Frakt

April 29, 2013 10:32 AM “Trapped in a Taylor Swift Album”

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...

By Andrew Rudalevige

April 10, 2013 8:22 AM Tim Kaine Is Not Really Sure if he Supports Federal Funding of Political Science Research or Not.

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...

By John Sides

April 04, 2013 7:05 PM North Carolina to Establish State Religion?

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...

By Daniel Luzer