Category Archives: August 2008

Political parties and economic growth

I’ve been hearing about these data from Larry Bartel’s book Unequal Democracy for awhile now:

There is a nice op-ed on these data by economist Alan Blinder in the New York Times.  The pattern is quite striking: everyone does better under democrats and inequality decreases, slightly.  No wonder Republicans try to distract voters by talking about […]

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Midweek blogging

As we try to reformat the blog a bit, I will be making weekly posts on tuesday, wednesday, or thursday.  Well, technically it’s friday morning right now, but close enough.  I will continue to post about a few topics that interest me, mainly biology (especially evolution), environmental issues, and how either of these topics intersect […]

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