Economic Thinking Posts on Debate Topics
The economics of trade and trade policy will be key to the NCFCA resolution on import and/or export policy reform. And for the Stoa league with its U.S.-European country or countries resolution, trade policy...
The 2022-23 NCFCA team policy topic is: The United States Federal Government should significantly reform its import and/or export policy. Congress has passed and the USFG administers a wide range of import and export...
Resolved: The United States Federal Government should substantially reform its policy towards one or more countries in Europe. The Stoa Spring Vote 2022 page briefly reviews past US military operations for Europe (WWI, WWII,...
Choice two for the Stoa league this year is: Resolved: Housing and urban development policy should be substantially reformed in the United States. The brief discussion on the Stoa Spring Vote 2022 page notes...
Many interesting resolutions with great opportunities to learn, discuss, and debate. [Update: the import-export policy reform topic was chosen. Discussed in other posts.] Let’s start with Africa: “The United States Federal Government should substantially...
The Stoa league debate topic and institutional bias for surgery [Also posted on NormalNutrition.substack.com here.] Biases (or preferences) are baked into institutions such as the National Institutes for Health. NIH fiscal year 2021 funding of...
Anthony Severin’s post for Ethos Debate discusses the Stoa policy choices for 2022-23: • Resolved: The United States Federal Government should substantially reform one or more of the following programs: Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare....
Today at APEE Conference I have short presentation on Public Health panel. Link here to Normal Nutrition post with draft of talk. And drawing from Goodman Institute Brief Analysis #142, discussed here: Overweight? Blame...
For the Stoa A.I. topic (Resolved: The USFG should substantially reform the use of Artificial Intelligence technology), can improved A.I. advance health and medical care, including cancer and other disease research and therapies? And...
Poor nutrition following misguided Federal Dietary Guidelines contribute to impulsive and aggressive behavior in prisons A previous federal prison reform post, Time to Reform Unhealthy Federal Prison Food linked to various articles and podcasts...