Economic Thinking Posts on Debate Topics

Thinking Outside the Border Box 1

Thinking Outside the Border Box

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....

Ideas for Reducing Dependence on Foreign Oil 0

Ideas for Reducing Dependence on Foreign Oil

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...

Wal-Mart Seen and Unseen 0

Wal-Mart Seen and Unseen

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...