Politics Roundtable

Politics Roundtable

Political blogs of interest to economists.

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Emirates Economist (John Chilton)

"Economic analysis of events in the United Arab Emirates and the Gulf”


July 7, 2010, 4:19 pm, 728928
It's all here. Be sure to check out the photos.


July 6, 2010, 2:19 pm, 728224

As for Central Florida’s testing center, one of its most recent cheating cases had nothing to do with the Internet, cellphones or anything tech. A heavily tattooed student was found with notes written on his arm. He had blended them into his body art.

Find ...


July 1, 2010, 4:19 pm, 726539
It's not too surprising that car companies and others with flashy products to sell hire beautiful fair-skinned women to pose with their products. Appealing to prejudice sells. There's no attempt to fool anyone into thinking the models know anything about the products.

Not so when it comes to hiring ...


June 24, 2010, 8:19 am, 722548
Gulf News

Riyadh: Saudi women plan to turn a controversial fatwa (religious ruling) to their advantage and launch a campaign to achieve their long-standing demand to drive in this conservative kingdom.

If the demand is not met, the women threatened to follow through the fatwa which allows ...


June 22, 2010, 10:19 pm, 721690
A doctor has invented a female condom with teeth.

Ehlers is distributing the female condoms in the various South African cities where the World Cup soccer games are taking place.

The woman inserts the latex condom like a tampon. Jagged rows of teeth-like hooks line its inside and ...


June 12, 2010, 6:19 pm, 716435
Mao kills 40 million:

Tombstone took its author, Yang Jisheng, nearly two decades of painstaking research to compile. In two volumes, it gives a minutely chronicled and irrefutable account of the death by starvation of 35-40 million Chinese between 1958 and 1961. It details a tragedy the ruling Communist ...


June 12, 2010, 8:19 am, 716362
The buzz this week in academia is over the latest lead article to the flagship economics journal, the Journal of Political Economy. In "Does Professor Quality Matter? Evidence from ...


June 10, 2010, 12:19 am, 715049
It stands to reason that if you're spending time in front of the computer you're not watching TV. At least not with your full attention. Gussy that idea up and you have Cognitive Surplus by the appropriately-named Clay Shirky:

He argues that the television ...


June 9, 2010, 2:19 am, 714382


June 8, 2010, 12:19 pm, 714050
O Canada. Only in Canada.

National Post

Ottawa children’s soccer league has introduced a rule that says any team that wins a game by more than five points will lose by default.

The Gloucester Dragons Recreational Soccer league’s newly implemented edict ...