Empirical research on international trade and investment has found that religion and culture affect economic interaction between countries even though these factors are not directly related to investment. Factors such as culture and religion may affect investment by providing information about...

Abstract: Previous scholars have argued that international treaties can increase investment by serving as a bond to clarify rules regarding investment, but the empirical literature often fails to find an effect of treaties on investment. In this paper I develop a formal model of bonding and...

In this article, we look at some aspects of polysemy which derive from the power of meaning potential. More specifically, we focus on aspects linked to the operation of conceptual blending, a major cognitive resource for creativity in many of its manifestations

An investigation of the way in which the basic mental operation of conceptual integration (quot;blendingquot;) is central to grammar.This is an expanded web version of Fauconnier and Turner, 1996 (quot;Blending as a Central Process of Grammar.quot; in lt;igt;Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and...

A reconsideration of the standard questions concerning literal and nonliteral language and thought, from the point of view of conceptual integration theory. The study of figure has been sidetracked from basic conceptual issues since the Greeks, with the surprising and humbling result that the...

This paper presents evidence that property tax limits have detrimental effects on state and local revenues during recessions. Property tax limits cause states to rely on income-elastic revenue sources, such as the income tax or charges and fees. Greater reliance on these revenue sources results...