The word: safety, when combined with transportation and administration. According to statistician William M. Briggs, bad statistics allows the safety in the name.
That’s Chester Finn’s quote from this morning’s New York Times , reacting to the news that students in Shanghai vastly outscored their counterparts in international standardized educational testing. Finn seems to view this news as Sputnik-like, in that he sees it as an event that would galvanize support for broader federal control of education (if
Some smart French liberals of a Catholic bent, led by Damien Theillier, visited our offices, and I sort of gave them a tour, but I clearly must have forgotten about the camera...or something. Visite du “Mises Institute” guidée par J. Tucker Uploaded by iCoppet . - More college and campus
Bryan Caplan and David Henderson have put together a set of very interesting and provocative posts at Econlog that deserve comment. First, Caplan has been reading Ralph Raico’s splendid Great Wars and Great Leaders: A Libertarian Rebuttal , which incidentally is the first book I’ve read from cover to cover on my iPad. Second, Henderson points out
The idea that the benefits of economic growth have accrued primarily to the rich is an important part of the conventional wisdom, and it is supported by official income statistics. I would argue that technological change and economic growth over the last several decades (or centuries) has made us more equal, not less. Here are two ways we are more
My first contribution to my weekly Forbes column/blog “The Economic Imagination” (which was going to be “Guerrilla Economics,” but it turns out that’s copyrighted) is up . There will probably be a couple of hiccups with Forbes’ new publishing platform and the first post might change accordingly, but I’m pretty excited about it. Please join the
Dr. John P. Cochran was born in Fort Collins, Colorado and raised in Phoenix a Arizona. He received his B.A. in economics at Metro State College of Denver and completed his M.A. and PhD in economics at University of Colorado. He is currently Dean, School of Business and professor of Economics at Metropolitan State College of Denver. He is also the
David Gordon covers new books in economics, politics, philosophy, and law for The Mises Review , the quarterly review of literature in the social sciences, published since 1995 by the Mises Institute. He is author of The Essential Rothbard , Resurrecting Marx , and The Philosophical Origins of Austrian Economics . He has also edited Secession,
Thomas J. DiLorenzo is the author of The Real Lincoln and How Capitalism Saved America . A professor of economics at Loyola College in Maryland and a senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, he has written for the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Washington Post, Reader’s Digest, Barron’s, and many other publications. He lives in
Hunt Tooley was born and raised in Vernon, Texas. He graduated from Texas A&M University and did his doctoral work in History at the University of Virginia, where he received his Ph.D. in History in 1986. He taught at several institutions in the southeast before he came to Austin College, in Sherman, Texas, in 1991. He is Professor of History at
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