Researching a 2014 debate topic on U.S./Middle East policy, costs for Kurdish refugee camp were reported: “U.S. government funding for refugees has reached $2.4 billion.” Building, operating, supplying, and protecting refugee camps can be...
[June 5 update: energy policy topic chosen.] Ace Peak posted debate notes on the NCFCA policy resolution choices of immigration reform, FDA reform, and USFG energy policy reform. Economic Thinking workshops, blog posts, and...
Resolved: The United States Federal Government should substantially reform one or more of the laws administered by the Department of Labor. This 1995 Heritage Foundation Report doesn’t call for reforming laws administered by the...
The author is Professor of Economic Organization in the University of Oxford. This article first appeared in the January 1958 issue of Lloyds Bank Review and was reprinted in Essays on Liberty, Vol. V,...
The school year has begun and immigration policy is in the news. Current national and Texas debate topics focus on immigration policy and values. The national NSDA (and UIL) policy topic is: Resolved: The...
In explaining the economic way of thinking, we start with the problems and opportunities of scarcity. For every person, family, and society, life offers a series of problems to be solved. Each day we...
Earlier posts connected the dots from scholars insisting federal courts should defend “liberty of contract,” to small enterprises like hair braiders facing expensive and time-consuming regulations lobbied for by established competitors. Established taxi companies...
Should the federal court system defer to state and federal legislatures in the realm of economic legislation and regulations? After all, why not let democratically-elected legislatures propose, debate, and pass or not pass legislation...
When people (like me) and organizations (like mine) encourage debaters to learn economics and incorporate economic principles into their speeches, we argue expanded economic freedom will enable people to improve their lives and the...
For the NCFCA LD resolution, “Resolved: In the realm of economics, freedom ought to be valued above equity,” tax and regulatory policy are relevant. I will argue that income taxes do not lack equity...
