For thousands of years people have migrated into, across, and out of Europe. Usually peacefully but sometimes as invading armies. Economic principles will help students understand and appreciate the dynamic forces driving E.U. immigration...
NCFCA policy debaters face a challenging resolution: The European Union should substantially reform its immigration policy. Europe, of course, has a long history of people migrating from region to region and country to country. For...
Okay, I don’t really have a new book. I’ve never tried a formal diet (mostly I research and speak on the economics of public policy debate topics). But like most people I have experience...
Just three weeks! Experts advise to wear masks, social distance, maybe return to lock down and then the virus could vanish and pandemic end. Maybe so, but epidemiologists, politicians, and bloggers disagree. With new...
The Stoa debate league has chosen its 2020-21 policy debate topic: Resolved: The USFG should considerably decrease its military commitments. US military commitments around the world (Montgomery Herald, July 9, 2018) reviews the scope...
[Revised from original May 16th post] Mostly stuck in the pandemic, curious about Covid-19, social distancing, and lockdowns, plus regulation of testing, masks, and treatments. Best maybe not to watch evening news (better described...
Overview presentations with notes on two of the Stoa policy topics. Stoa 2020 Penal Reform Topic Stoa2020: Federal Labor Law Reform
Stoa league has Policy and LD topic choice with analysis: Spring Vote 2020. 1. Preliminary notes and links, first on foreign policy: Can this new think tank clean up America’s flabby foreign policy? (The...
Economics of NCFCA topics playlist are posted. These are early versions of presentations I would give at Economic Thinking workshops, and overheads are drawn from past similar debate topics. Below are more recent videos...
The NCFCA debate league announced three topic choices for the coming school year:1) The European Union should substantially reform its immigration policy.2) The United States Federal Government should substantially increase its development assistance to...
