Political Economy

Because I enjoy arguments I’m going to attempt to flesh out a conversation held in class that became drowned in yelling and a myriad of atte...

Whilst browsing blogs, I came across a post entitled Meditations on Self Defence , written by LawDog , who I believe to be a policeman in Te...

With the political races heating up and trying to find out who is going to be the representatives for each party it is interesting to see ho...

I was reading Somebody's Gotta Say It by Neal Boortz last night and I came across a quote by Adolf Hitler. After reading Olson's ...

So far Harford’s book has been pretty interesting. He’s pretty fair with most of the issues, it seems. Every time I think of a criticism, ...

A Wall Street Journal editorial takes a look at John Edwards campaign rhetoric regarding greedy corporations: But given his egalitarian imp...

This article talks about the training program the certain fire officials go through in order to execute "controlled burns". The pr...

I have recently been thinking about the relationship between gas prices and real estate. An obvious question is whether such a relationship ...

* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-op-fraser9dec09,1,1306484.story?coll=la-news-comment&ctrack=2&cset=true > ...

With continuing urban growth and development there are many issues that may arise. One issue in particular is that of increased traffic con...

The United States is not alone in the question regarding what to do about immigration. Europe is facing many of the same concerns as the Un...

No doubt, most of us are aware of the crisis (both present and impending, evidently) in the mortgage business, and its probable disastrous e...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/01/AR2007110102849.html Kentlands community, located near Gaithersburg , M...

I have recently finished reading an article by Rich Tosches in the Colorado Springs Independent this past week. This article was titled How ...

I stumbled upon a report from the South Kona- Kau coastal conservation task force to the 2007 legislature in Hawaii. They apparently had th...

According an article in the Denver Post, cities big and small are experiencing a dramatic return to urban living. People are seeing that ur...

A recent article I read in the New York Times talked about how Denver was trying to clean up Colfax Ave. Being from Colorado and spending t...

After a semester of discussing this subject I thought it was about time that I asked the question “why live in a new urbanism community?”. W...

An Article in the Seattle Times (November 12, 2007) written by Neal Peirce is the antithesis of personal freedom and economic liberty. The ...

Urban sprawl. In its simplest term, the unplanned development of land. In reality, it is the modern day epidemic, sweeping the nation and de...