Past Economic Thinking posts have reviewed health care policies and ideas for reform. The 2024 Stoa policy topic is: Resolved: The United States Federal Government should substantially reform its policy on healthcare. Though many...
End all federal energy subsidies and mandates In the 1970s–fifty years ago now– The Energy Crisis jolted the U.S. economy causing shortages and long lines at gas stations. In response various federal energy policies...
… While in North America economists have considerable influence in finance, industry, and government, in South America their influence has been even greater. From Mexico to Argentina, from Brazil to Peru, state by state,...
Okay, maybe not movies, but documentaries and online videos. Still, these can be an engaging way to survey ongoing debates over current and future energy technologies. The hundreds of thousands migrating north to cities...
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...
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...
Charles Dicken’s novel, A Christmas Carol, was set in England in the early 1840s. We hope England and Europe escapes the cold of the winter of 1840-41. Modern industrial societies should be safe from...
Energy matters, and the world’s energy future will be eclectic. For an overview see this 2020 TEDxSanAntonio talk by Graham Conway The Contradictions of Battery Operated Vehicles. The video now has a warning for...
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...
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...
