Our Energy Future is Eclectic
Energy matters, and the world’s energy future will be eclectic. For an overview see this 2020 TEDxSanAntonio talk by Graham Conway The Contradictions of Battery Operated Vehicles. The video now has a warning for...
Category: Federal Transportation Policy
Transportation Policy Reform
Transportation policies are local, state, federal. The coming year’s NCFCA topic calls for reforming federal transportation policies: Resolved: The United States Federal Government (USFG) should significantly reform its domestic transportation policy implemented by the...
Reform River and Port Policies to Boost Trade, Reduce Flooding, Recharge Groundwater
Water is key to prosperity across the world, from rain for agriculture to rivers for irrigation, transportation, and recreation. Too much water, like too little, causing floods or leaving land too dry, devastate and...
Student Programs and Opportunities
[Notes from NITOC flyer with additional information] In addition to online resources, presentations at summer debate camps, and fall workshops, Economic Thinking works with and recommends these organizations and programs: • American Logos, training...
Transportation Policy Institute
Transportation Policy Institute is a trial Economic Thinking project helping current and alumni debaters engage the public policy world with the research and advocacy skills developed through the debate season. Many affirmative cases–some from...
Nationalism, Globalism, and The Commanding Heights
For Lincoln-Douglas debaters, the 2017-2018 Resolution –Resolved: Nationalism ought to be valued above globalism, invites research and discussion of U.S. and European history and economics. Global trade, investment, and migration have been central to...
China Closer Than Chicago but Hawaii is Further
How far away is China from the United States? If you live on America’s west coast and buy or sell goods, China is usually closer than Chicago. Factories across the U.S. ship goods by...
Air Transportation Safety is Global, Delays National
Why Flying Has Never Been Safer (Wall Street Journal, January 24, 2018) reports on the amazing worldwide 2017 safety record for air transportation. For Stoa policy debaters and NCFCA LD debaters, air travel safety has...
Nevil Shute Novels on Entrepreneurs Back in Print
In move to new website some older posts on books were left behind, including this post on the compelling novels of Nevil Shute. Nevil Shute was a successful aircraft engineer and businessman who wrote...
Federal Transportation Subsidies: Why Not Steam Cars Instead of Electric?
Economists have long been skeptical of national industrial policies, where politicians and bureaucrats try to pick and subsidize winning technologies of the future. Congress is currently debating tax reform and considering dropping federal subsidies...