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Daily Archive for August 26th, 2009

Rolling Rocks Up Hills

Posted in Education on Aug 26th, 2009

Todays’ WSJ in a review of NurtureShock: The benefits of teaching tolerance and promoting ­diversity look equally unimpressive in the current ­research. According to “NurtureShock,” a lot of well-meaning adult nostrums-“we’re all friends,” “we’re all equal”-pass right over the heads of young children. Attempts to increase racial sensitivity in older students can even lead to […]

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What is Squeezing the Wintercow Farmers?

Posted in Corporatism, Price System on Aug 26th, 2009

Here is a question I ask my freshmen economics students: I sometimes feel like the world wishes to live in a “Goldie-Locks Economy.” For example, I often hear complaints about interest rates that are too high (discrimination) AND also about interest rates that are too low (predatory lending); about gas prices that are too high […]

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