Economic Thinking Posts on Debate Topics

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Housing: Erase Arbitrary Lines

On a recent drive home from Vancouver, British Columbia, I listened to the Cato Daily Podcast interview with Nolan Gray discussing high housing costs and recent reforms. (Housing policy was the topic for the...

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Notes on Vancouver Housing

Government and opposition members debated Vancouver housing policy yesterday (Dec. 20) at the Vancouver Debate Academy’s first Deliberative Dialogue event. The four teams had just 30 minutes to research the announced motion, calling for...

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All Energy Day 2023 (updated)

Bjorn Lomborg discusses “the energy transition” as keynote speaker for All Energy Day 2022. Lomborg warns renewable energy advocates to be careful not to exaggerate harms from climate change and global warming. Transitioning from...

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Debating Economic Inequality (again)

National and Texas debate resolutions this year focus on policies to reduce economic inequality. Wealth and income inequality are highly-charged campaign issues with newspaper and evening news stories and comedy segments peaking in the...

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The Energy Race

For thousands of years energy technologies have advanced as knowledge expanded for discovering, transporting, and processing fuels, along with other advances in material sciences. From burning wood then peat, then coal, oil, and natural...

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Transportation Policy Reform

Transportation policies are local, state, federal. The coming year’s NCFCA topic calls for reforming federal transportation policies: Resolved: The United States Federal Government (USFG) should significantly reform its domestic transportation policy implemented by the...