Economic Thinking Posts on Debate Topics
In their 2008 Heritage Backgrounder, “A Safe and Bountiful Harvest: How to Ensure America’s Food Safety,” Daniella Markheim and Caroline Walsh note: Americans are shopping the world’s grocers like never before, importing almost $75...
The Stoa policy topic on agriculture and/or food safety has been selected: The United States federal government should substantially reform its agricultural and/or food safety policy in the United States. Two earlier posts discussed...
For the proposed Stoa resolution on labor law, students would research Constitutional history as well as legal and economic concepts. The United States federal government should substantially reform its laws governing the rights of...
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...