Sustainability and Equity: A Better Future for All is the subtitle of the 2011 United Nations Development Report. The full report is here (pdf), Sustainability and equity are themes in each year’s United Nations...
Cato Unbound is featuring a discussion among economists on limiting freedom in order to provide equity, in the form of a guaranteed minimum income. The discussion begins with Matt Zwolinski’s essay “The Pragmatic Libertarian...
There are a great many reasons to not value freedom above equity. Which is good news for debaters facing the NCFCA LD value topic: Resolved: In the realm of economics, freedom ought to be valued...
The New York Times ran an interesting story on the economic benefits of building yachts. Titled “Seeing a Supersize Yacht as a Job Engine, Not a Self-Indulgence,” it’s the story of St. Louis zillionaire...
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...
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...
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...
Lincoln-Douglas debaters are exploring the new NCFCA topic: Resolved: In the realm of economics, freedom ought to be valued above equity. That exploration leads into the realm of economics. It’s sort of like exploring Narnia where...
The revised wording for the 2014-2015 NCFCA Lincoln-Douglas topic is: Resolved: In the realm of economics, freedom ought to be valued above equity. The topics’ original wording was: Resolved: Economic freedom ought to be...
(Revised and expanded version of 2004 post, quoted in December 17, 2006 Toronto Star article “The Politics of Ebenezer Scrooge“) Family, Work, Community Did Ebenezer Scrooge Dream a Better Life for Himself? Reflections on...
