What Students Owe Teachers: Trust, Docility, Effort, Thinking
James V. Schall, who has long been a Professor Political Philosophy at Georgetown University, has argued that students have obligations to ...
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Thursday, August 31, 2017
Wednesday, August 30, 2017
How the Jargonauts Keep Normies in their Place
I spend most of my working life, and even a disturbingly high share of my private life, trying to move back and forth from academic jargon t...
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Tuesday, August 29, 2017
The Timidity and Buzzard Mentality of Professors
One of my favorite scathing essays about the dysfunctionalities of academic writing and academic life is the "Dancing with professors: ...
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Monday, August 28, 2017
What Structure Are Academic Researchers Building?
This week before Labor Day, news about economics tends to be scarce, while academics and teachers are looking ahead to the next term. In tha...
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Friday, August 25, 2017
The Smile Curve: The Distribution of Benefits from Global Value Chains
Global value chains have been on the rise. Roughly one-third of international trade is "traditional" trade, in which all of produc...
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Thursday, August 24, 2017
Will the China Shock Operate in Reverse?
Everyone knows that China's economy has had explosive economic growth in recent decades, with tidal effects through the rest of the glob...
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Monday, August 21, 2017
The Next Inflection Point for Aging and Social Security
It was apparent back in the 1970s that something needed to be done about Social Security. A presidential commission under Alan Greenspan pro...
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Friday, August 18, 2017
Blockchain: New Frontiers
Blockchain is a technology that offers reliable by decentralized record-keeping. The best-known applications of "blockchain" techn...
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Wednesday, August 16, 2017
Autonomous Cars: Altering One in Nine Jobs
It seems clear that driverless vehicles are coming, although the timeline for their arrival remains unclear. David Beede, Regina Powers and...
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Tuesday, August 15, 2017
Adam Smith: The Plight of the Impartial Spectator in Times of Faction
Adam Smith's first great book, the Theory of Moral Sentiments, relies heavily in places on the idea of an "impartial spectator....
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Friday, August 11, 2017
NAFTA in a Multipolar World Economy
Discussions of globalization often seem rooted in an assumption that the main choices, either for the US or for other countries, are either ...
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Here's a slightly obscure passage that made me cackle. Among the ancient Greek philosophers, the virtues were considered to be philosoph...
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The interaction of a bubble in real estate prices with the banking and financial sector drove the US economy into the Great Recession. For a... -
On November 2, 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed a law establishing a federal holiday for the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., to be c...
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