You might think that a short academic paper, written in the customary turgid jargon, wouldn't be as funny as an article in, say, The Onion.  If so, you've never read "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward A Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity," published in 1995.

And you've certainly not read this paper, by Harvard economists Greg Mankiw and Matthew Weinzierl, published two weeks ago.

Should tall people pay higher taxes?  The answer might surprise you.

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