Economics

What Exercise and Economics Have in Common 0
- Politics, Economics
- March 7, 2023
With a background in both studying economics and working in the fitness industry, I can see how the two fields complement each other and together provide a valuable learning opportunity. I’ve found that the lessons I taught my fitness clients in the gym about the well-being of their bodies are similar to the lessons that
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Western Leftists Loved Stalinism and Maoism, Despite Their Horrors 1
- Politics, Economics
- March 1, 2023
I recently had the opportunity to travel to the Texas Tech University School of Law to debate the merits of capitalism versus socialism with Ben Burgis, a columnist for Jacobin and philosophy instructor at Georgia State University Perimeter College. It was a riveting discussion, and I hope students left with not just a better understanding of the horrors
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The Not-So-Great Depression Diet 0
- Politics, Economics
- February 9, 2023
When E.C. Harwood formed the American Institute for Economic Research 90 years ago, the New Deal was just beginning. The Great Depression, though, was over three years old, and it was a hangry, troublesome toddler. For those with a job, or on a fixed income, the Depression was great, because prices sank a great deal.
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Why the American Medical System Is Broken 10
- Economics
- February 1, 2023
Anyone who’s recently visited a hospital in America knows the system is broken. Prices are outrageous, answers are slim, and insurance companies are insufferable. Each time I think about how the medical system in America is terrible, one of the only small comforts is that Canada’s healthcare situation is worse. Still, we didn’t arrive here
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Has Capitalism Created a Wasteful Excess of Managers?1
- Politics, Economics
- January 18, 2023
Have you noticed there seem to be a lot of managers nowadays? It’s not just you. Professors at the Harvard Business Review estimate there is one manager for every 4.7 employees and claim this excessive amount of paper-pushers leads to a total loss of $3 trillion dollars per year in the US. This amount of waste
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The Economics of ‘Mending Wall’3
- Politics, Economics
- January 17, 2023
Mending Wall, the endearing 1914 poem by Robert Frost, offers important lessons about economics and cooperation. While the poem contains lessons about balancing tolerance and acceptance, modernity and tradition, and perhaps the efficacy of national borders, it remains open to interpretation. The surface-level message, repeated twice in the poem, is that “good fences make good neighbors,” which
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