Political Economy

Based on Power and Prosperity by Mancur Olson             Moving from a state of nature to what many philosophers have dubbed a social c...

Based on The Price of Inequality by Joseph Stiglitz               Looking for an alternative view on why such great inequality exists ...

Based on the book Why Nation Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson             In the 14th Century the Plague wiped out almost ha...

Some of might have noticed over the last few years that the food you buy at restaurants has some strange numbers next to your favorite me...

Recently, over the Steam Black Friday sale, I picked up, among other games, Bioshock.  It is a highly enjoyable game, and one of the most in...

Lately, we have been talking about flaws in the political system in the U.S. and how those flaws affect it's citizens liberty and freedo...

Efficiency vs. Liberty                As economists we often try to finds ways to have the most efficient allocation of resources or incr...

I find it pretty troubling how little the United States values education compared to other first world countries. One of the many things of ...

Jake Miller December 5, 2014 Economic Freedom Blog Post 2 Socialism and Urban Planning                 Socialism is defined as an...

Too often today do we hear about "greedy" capitalists exploiting natural resources for their own personal gain.  People see the cl...

Many religions devote large amounts of literature and knowledge towards the ideas of loving each other, doing kind things, and being a bette...

On November 20 th the president introduced a plan that would allow roughly 5 million illegal immigrants to come forward and register, p...

During the semester we been talking a lot about liberty. Liberty to do what you want with your person and your property as long as it does n...

                Taking a look at funding in public schools, I got to thinking about the students that lie on both the low and high end of m...

Ever get the feeling that those whom have been elected into office have been professional politicians their whole lives? It seems like ever...

One of the topics that we discussed in class was conservation. I chose the topic of whether or not we should drill for oil in the National A...

One of the most fascinating topics that we focused more recently in class involved discrimination. Not only did it include discrimination in...

Government collects taxes for the purpose of collecting revenue. If you have explored the depths of any media outlet, you will find a pletho...

       Our discussion in class got me thinking about how the world would be different if all or most of the planet's natural resources ...

It seems to me that when we look at the issue of Ebola and how quarantine fits in terms of liberty it is important to look at who the re...