Economic Thinking Posts on Debate Topics
The aid dollars pour out to assist those whose lives have been devastated by the tsunami. Millions of dollars will help provide food, clean water, medicine, and soon shelter and rebuilding infrastructure and businesses....
Homeschool students are debating a resolution calling for reducing dependence on foreign oil. I have spoke to at over a dozen Economic Thinking debate workshops designed to provid an introduction to economic concepts, and...
How do we measure a community’s net loss or gain when new stores come to town? There is no easy way to measure progress, nor to measure decline. From a distance, and over decades...
Family, Work, Community: Did Ebenezer Scrooge Dream a Better Life for Himself? Reflections on watching George C. Scott in Dicken’s “A Christmas Carol” by Gregory Rehmke Consider Charles Dicken’s Ebenezer Scrooge, as brought to...