Hernando de Soto’s October 10, 2014 Wall Street Journal essay is titled: “The Capitalist Cure for Terrorism: Military might alone won’t defeat Islamic State and its ilk. The U.S. needs to promote economic empowerment.”...
The Mackinac Center for Public Policy recently posted, and I shared, this Frederic Bastiat quote on Facebook. Lincoln-Douglas debaters researching the values of freedom and equity in the realm of economics may have heard the...
Now streaming from Free to Choose TV: Unlikely Heroes of the Arab Spring. From the FreetoChoose.tv webpage describing the video: The program shows that “The Arab Spring” was less a political event than it...
National Geographic features a short video on “The World’s Largest Open-Ocean Fish Farm”: Open Blue’s operations off the coast of Panama (May, 2014): A five minute CNN 2012 segment on Open Blue below (from...
This post by the late Gary Becker discusses the different because income inequality and issues of equity. Titled “Contrived Inequality and Equality” the post looks at legislation and regulation that creates income differences by...
Charlotte Twight’s article, “Watching You” in The Independent Review offers a deeply critical review of federal policies monitoring and collecting data on everyday people. Full title: “Watching You: The Systematic Surveillance of Ordinary Americans.” In...
In Mark Perry’s recent post: More on … ‘rising income inequality’ with new data from … Census report he argues Census data indicate not much has changed over the last twenty years. The share of...
Some years ago, a friend teaching high school in the Dallas area mentioned many of her students had been victims of abuse at home. I was surprised and asked if she saw bruises or...
Debaters struggling with the complexity, turmoil, and violence across much of the Middle East, might enjoy Barry McGuire’s 1965 hit song “The Eve of Destruction.” The song helps put today’s conflicts in perspective. An...
For students researching and debating the economics/freedom/equity topic, “Who Really Wants to Solve the Problem of Poverty?” offers an excellent overview. The article asks why people who express deep interest in reducing poverty in...
