In the thick of the 1970s and 1980s Cold War, U.S. economic policy with Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China favored open trade, international investment, and economic integration. Trade with Japan, Hong...
Angus Deaton just won the Nobel Prize in Economics, and his recent book, The Great Escape: health, wealth and the origins of inequality is highly recommended for Stoa debaters researching the Asia trade topic. In Chapter Six,...
Rather than blame politicians for creating, and unions for expanding, restrictive labor regulations, it makes sense to focus on economic misunderstandings. People seem to think jobs are somehow limited and fixed by forces beyond...
For $15 you can do your part to reduce Federal electronic surveillance… at least at the very local level. Webpage here.
Of the tens of thousands of regulations that restrict entrepreneurs trying to work each day or build new enterprises in farming, dairy, street-vending, home-baking, political groups most are local and state problems of local and...
Critics of the U.S. Postal Service complain about ongoing financial costs (“The Post Office Lost $2 Billion In Just 3 Months“), mediocre service, and pension liabilities: At the end of fiscal year 2013, USPS...
Debate topics change from year to year, but economic principles stay the same. Political economy looks at the intersection of politics and economics, and every debate resolution has such an intersection. Established companies and...
With “system” in the title, this September 8, 2015 Atlas Network article on reforming the federal courts is valuable for this year’s NCFCA policy debate: “RANDY BARNETT AIMS TO RESTORE JUDICIAL SYSTEM TO CONSTITUTIONAL...
Students researching the NCFCA federal court system topic can look to reform the New Deal deference federal courts give to federal and state regulations. New theories of economics became popular in the early 1930s,...
Early Economic Thinking Workshop on NCFCA federal court system reform topic. Thursday, August 27 in Mt. Pleasant (near Racine), Wisconsin. • Economics, Justice, and Federal Court System Reform
