Economic Thinking Posts on Debate Topics
A proposed Stoa resolution reads: “The United States federal government should substantially reform its agricultural and/or food safety policy in the United States.” In an earlier post I focused mostly on agricultural policy reform...
Highly recommended is Shutting down fraud, waste, and abuse: Moving from rhetoric to real solutions to federal benefits programs (Deloitte University Press, May 11, 2016) Deloitte’s research collection of studies outlines process reforms and...
Reform options abound for the Stoa resolution choice: “The United States federal government should substantially reform one or more of its means-tested benefits programs.” A key problem and expense with any current or proposed...
A proposed 2016-2017 resolution for the Stoa league was: The United States federal government should substantially reform one or more of its means-tested benefits programs. NSDA debaters had a similar resolution in 2009, calling for expanding...
Consider the proposed Stoa resolution: The United States federal government should substantially reform its laws governing the rights of employers, employees, and/or labor organizations. There are a great many federal employment regulations prohibiting or...
Agricultural policy reform has been a past debate topic for public school and homeschool students. Food safety policy reform is discussed after agricultural policy. Public Choice economics explains the dynamics of federal agricultural policies:...
In a thoughtful recent debate over reforming the federal court system, students on both sides struggled to address how best to protect people from and “punish” large corporations. The negative explained that without the...
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. – The Wealth of...
Desperate for economic reforms so China could catch up to the West (and with Hong Kong, Taiwan, SK, and Japan), Chinese government officials since the 1960s have implemented disastrously destructive economic policies. Last fall...
Washing machines are a big deal. Clothes get dirty and require washing. Around the world, women wash clothes and most wash by hand since they lack access to electricity, or to enough electricity to...