The Refugee Camp with Millions of Impoverished Refugees
For some reason I can’t embed the 14-minute segment on YouTube titled “Johan Norberg – Free or Equal – Free to Choose 30 years.” Students should be able to view it at the link....
Author: Gregory Rehmke
Refugee Economics: Success of Self-Reliance Refugee Policy
Turmoil in Syria, Iraq, and Gaza continue to sent tens of thousands fleeing violence. With the state quo, though, U.N., U.S., U.K, and other international agencies and governments fund broken and bureaucratic refugee policies. Global...
The Campaign Against Income Inequality
Resolved: In the realm of economics, freedom ought to be valued above equity. The Middle East topic may seem endlessly complicated to policy debaters, but the debate over freedom and equity turns out to...
Think Tanks and U.S./Middle East Policies
This debate topic should encourage homeschool students to research American and Middle Eastern history, international affairs, geography, and the economics of trade, development, and energy. For over ten years Economic Thinking workshops have helped...
Big Brother and Federal Electronic Surveillance Policy
Stoa debate students have a high-tech resolution for the coming school year: Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially reform its electronic surveillance law. So homeschool students will be researching and debating many legal...
Arrival Cities, Open and Closed, Across the Middle East
Most of the Middle East is troubled because most cities lack open societies and economies. State capitalism and socialism are the rule on most countries. Tradition-heavy societies regulated by entrenched elites is more the rule in world...
Sweat Equity for Sweatshop Workers?
Lincoln Douglas debaters have economic freedom versus equity as a national topic. It’s value debate rather than a policy debate, but if freedom should be valued above equity, or equity above freedom, these value...
Tunisian and Moroccan Economic Realities
Imagine a government license was required to start a debate club, or to coach a student for free or for pay. Actually, that’s not so hard to imagine. Any city council that could ban...
More Adventures in the Realm of Economics
I posted on the NCFCA policy topic, asking how refugee camps could be reformed or transformed to allow more economic freedom. Could refugee camps be Startup Cities. Lincoln-Douglas debaters might be suspicious of a LD...
Could Refugee Camps Be Startup Cities?
For students researching Middle East policy, this fascinating July 4th NYT article is highly recommended: Refugee Camp for Syrians in Jordan Evolves as a Do-It-Yourself City. The Zaatari Refugee Camp, now home for over 85,000...