The Outstater: Journalism for Dummies
A FRIEND EXPRESSED ADMIRATION for how quickly I was able to go through the morning newspaper. No, I explained, I’m not a speed reader. Reductions in newsroom staffing have had a lot to do with it, but also I am aided by a lifetime of amalgamated discernment. I know which stories can be ignored at no Read the full article…
Schansberg: Thoughts on Immigration
by Eric Schansberg, Ph.D. In some ways, immigration is not all that difficult to analyze. The first key is an opening concept from the first course in Microeconomics. When immigrants come here to buy and sell, to work for employers and own businesses, to borrow and invest, and so on, they engage in a wide Read the full article…
Van Cott: Indiana Apples
by T. Norman Van Cott Article 1, Section 10, Clause 2 in the Constitution of the United States has been instrumental in making the U.S. economy the powerhouse that it is today. How so, you say? It did so by curbing individual states’ ability to impose tariffs on goods and services coming from or going Read the full article…
Morris: Happiness Defined Grammatically
by Leo Morris I was spending a quiet day amusing myself with harmless diversions. I played a little guitar. I read a few chapters in a mystery novel. I watched part of an old movie on cable. I gave a Sunday newspaper the once-over. I studied my recipe for breakfast quiche to see if I Read the full article…
Schansberg: Income Inequality
by Eric Schansberg, Ph.D. “An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain — the equality of all men.” — Ignazio Silone There has been tons of attention on income (and wealth) inequality in recent years — much of it driven by a nasty combination of ignorance and envy. For example, folks Read the full article…
Half Past the Month: That Crony Capitalist Elephant
AN ELEPHANT HAS ENTERED THE ROOM of Indiana’s economic-development officialdom. Nobody wants to talk about the growing amount of research challenging its policy formula. It costs a lot and it doesn’t seem to work. An adjunct scholar of the Indiana Policy Review last month described it in the inverse. He told a group of Indiana businessmen and Read the full article…
