Quick Solution to the “Rich-Poor Gap”
Students researching the topic on the values of freedom and equity in the realm of economics will be interested in the new Federal Reserve survey showing an increasing gap between rich and poor, or...
Monthly Archive: September 2014
West Coast Bottom Fisheries Were in Trouble, But Now Booming
The Seattle Times front page article “Eat up! These bottom fish make a dramatic recovery on West Coast” (Sept. 2, 2014) offers yet another catch shares policy success story. Bottom fisheries were in trouble along the...
Riding Down the Cost Curve: Shale and Oil Sands Extraction
The eyes and minds of engineers can’t look everyone at once. Every engineering project has an opportunity cost measured by the fruits of alternative engineering challenges left unexplored. High oil prices over the last...
Riding Down the Cost Curve: Shale and Oil Sands Extraction
The eyes and minds of engineers can’t look everyone at once. Every engineering project has an opportunity cost measured by the fruits of alternative engineering challenges left unexplored. One reason Saudi Arabian policy kept...
Equity is Not Equality in the Realm of Economics
NCFCA Lincoln-Douglas debaters prepare to argue both for and against the chosen resolution: Resolved: In the realm of economics, freedom ought to be valued above equity. On the negative side, students can emphasize that in...