Andrew Coulson, of Cato and co-author of the 2007 study End It, Don’t Mend It: What to Do with NCLB, has an eye-opening piece published at TCS Daily on school choice and the right’s gradual abandonment of school choice in deference to centralization as an antidote to the problems plaguing our education system. His argument, [...]
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In the Winter edition of City Journal, possibly one of the finest public policy publications produced today, Guy Sorman has an interesting and instructive article on the effect of the Chicago Boys – that is, the Milton Friedman-molded Chicago School of Economics – on Chile’s dramatic economic growth between Allende’s failed, ruinous collectivization and the [...]
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Haven’t written nearly as often as I’d like, but I do in fact have a couple of posts in the pipeline that will be posted as soon as I get more than 5 minutes of free time.
I have to run, but I thought I’d announce that I’ve published a new article on Bacon’s Rebellion, a [...]
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This morning, I was listening to a podcast of Marketplace Money - which is the acceptable but somewhat inferior weekend edition of American Public Media’s Marketplace - which, among other things, featured a small segment discussing the role of ‘math anxiety’ in some people’s financial illiteracy. Something the guest (I forgot her name) said really [...]
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Reese, Laura A. and Gary Sands. (2007, February). Creative Class and Economic Prosperity: Old Nostrums, Better Packaging? Economic Development Quarterly, 22(1), 3-7. [creative.pdf]
The February edition of Economic Development Quarterly features a symposium to address Richard Florida’s 2002 Creative Class hypothesis, which posits that “attracting and retaining members of the creative class” is a pivotal element [...]
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