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…
Morris: Bill Cosby
by Leo Morris You’ve already heard from Don McLean about “the day the music died.” Call this the day the laughter died. It wasn’t until I glimpsed the monster inside him that I realized how much Bill Cosby had meant to me growing up. Back then, he was the funny man who helped me get Read the full article…
Keating: Tax Abatements and TIFs
The following is based on comments made at a foundation luncheon April 12, 2018, in Fort Wayne. by Barry Keating, Ph.D. Jerry Brown was elected governor of California in 1974 and again in 1978 before busying himself as mayor of Oakland. Californians in 2010 apparently wanted to return to the days of “Governor Moonbeam,” as Read the full article…
