Another Look at Income Inequality
In Mark Perry’s recent post: More on … ‘rising income inequality’ with new data from … Census report he argues Census data indicate not much has changed over the last twenty years. The share of...
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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...
Will Billionaires Buying Giant Yachts Reduce Income Inequality?
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...
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...
Global Inequality: Should freedom be valued above equity?
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...
Family, Work, Community: Did Ebenezer Scrooge Dream a Better Life for Himself?
Charles Dicken’s novel, A Christmas Carol, was set in England in the early 1840s. We hope England and Europe escapes the cold of the winter of 1840-41. Modern industrial societies should be safe from...
All Energy Day 2023 (updated)
Bjorn Lomborg discusses “the energy transition” as keynote speaker for All Energy Day 2022. Lomborg warns renewable energy advocates to be careful not to exaggerate harms from climate change and global warming. Transitioning from...
A Christmas Carol in Cold, Cold Europe
Charles Dicken’s novel, A Christmas Carol, was set in England in the early 1840s. We hope England and Europe escapes the cold of the winter of 1840-41. Modern industrial societies should be safe from...
For God and Profit: How Banking and Finance Can Serve the Common Good
For Stoa debaters with the banking, finance, monetary topic, here are three Acton Institute posts on Samuel Gregg’s 2016 book: For God and Profit: How Banking and Finance Can Serve the Common Good. •...