Football and Cheerleader Freedom or Equity?
Robert Reich complains in a Facebook post that NFL cheerleaders are paid too little: Robert Reich As if the NFL didn’t already have enough trouble with women, it turns out the most powerful sports...
Category: The Economics of Freedom and Equity
Quick Solution to the “Rich-Poor Gap”
Students researching the topic on the values of freedom and equity in the realm of economics will be interested in the new Federal Reserve survey showing an increasing gap between rich and poor, or...
Equity is Not Equality in the Realm of Economics
NCFCA Lincoln-Douglas debaters prepare to argue both for and against the chosen resolution: Resolved: In the realm of economics, freedom ought to be valued above equity. On the negative side, students can emphasize that in...
Shifting for Himself in an Earlier Great Recession
In the last three years many thousand American boys have been compelled, like Gilbert, to give up their cherished hopes, and exchange school-life for narrow means and hard work. Nothing is more uncertain than...
The Inequity of Too Much Equity
Okay, the title is sort of a play on words. But life is difficult, even for the rich. And growing up, maybe life is especially hard for the rich. Children face unique challenges growing...
America: Still the Land of Opportunity for Better Online Videos
Maybe I am predisposed against the CBS video linked below because I disagree with the claims made. Readers can become viewers and decide for themselves. Just click the link: Timothy Noah on America’s income...
Don Boudreaux on the Realm of Economics
For NCFCA LD students researching the topic Resolved: In the realm of economics, freedom ought to be valued above equity, economist Don Boudreaux explains why an introduction to the “realm of economics” in undergraduate...
Equity in Lost Language, Lost Liberalism
Liberalism was long a word for a family of perspectives and policies thought central to advancing societies of free and responsible people. Firms, churches, clubs, societies, and a wide range of voluntary associations advanced...
Life is Tough on the Street, for Jaywalkers and Street Vendors
Hard I think to find a more powerful case of injustice/lack of equity–of not treating people fairly–than the revenue model for the City of Ferguson, Missouri. Alex Tabarrok discusses the problem in his MarginalRevolution...
Equity Requires Equal Access to The Law
Inequality of income and wealth are different than inequality of legal status. Social equity requires equal access to a just rule of law. The great British, American, and French revolutions advanced western world legal...