Category: Economic Thinking

According to the New York Times lead editorial on April 25, Ghana is the new success story of Africa. Though still terribly poor, Ghana is a role model of stability. And its needs only…....

Too bad New York Times reporters don’t read Forbes. Contrast a Forbes article (below) about a global corporation bringing to developing countries the know how for producing and the trust for buying quality goods,...

Sometime symptoms are confused with the disease that causes them. I would argue that litter is a symptom. According to an article in the April 7 New York Times (p. A4), scattered plastic bags...

[Great news! It didn’t happen. No big “global warming induced” wave. Lives saved but also little attention paid to the “Countdown to global catastrophe” environmentalist report (click link in title above to see article)....

The aid dollars pour out to assist those whose lives have been devastated by the tsunami. Millions of dollars will help provide food, clean water, medicine, and soon shelter and rebuilding infrastructure and businesses....

Homeschool students are debating a resolution calling for reducing dependence on foreign oil. I have spoke to at over a dozen Economic Thinking debate workshops designed to provid an introduction to economic concepts, and...

How do we measure a community’s net loss or gain when new stores come to town? There is no easy way to measure progress, nor to measure decline. From a distance, and over decades...

Family, Work, Community: Did Ebenezer Scrooge Dream a Better Life for Himself? Reflections on watching George C. Scott in Dicken’s “A Christmas Carol” by Gregory Rehmke Consider Charles Dicken’s Ebenezer Scrooge, as brought to...