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Daily Archive for May 14th, 2013

This interesting piece describes how progressives and conservatives seem to be aligning against the Common Core state standards. Without commenting on the Common Core itself this little marriage helps me really understand the challenge I have as an economist and someone who appreciates voluntary association and private property rights. People have no clue what “capitalism” […]

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I am a Lord Jeff of course: Yet Burgard is not alone in his concerns. Last month, when Amherst College turned down an invitation to join edX, it was by a faculty vote of more than sixty per cent. A lot of teachers, some of whom had been browsing Harvard moocs, worried that they threatened to […]

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We hate hospitals and medical care because “they” charge prices that are too high, especially for “important stuff.” We hate Walmart because “they” charge too little. And no, people do not have theories of positive and negative external costs to justify holding both positions.  In other news, I just received a notice from New York […]

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