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Are Corporations People?
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Students, get a full week of this at a summer seminar: lrnlbty.co Corporations are not monoliths -- they are made up of individuals, including workers and non-wealthy shareholders. So are corporations distinct from the peo> |
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Social Security vs. Private Retirement
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Students, get a full week of this at a summer seminar: lrnlbty.co Is Social Security a good retirement plan? Economics professor Antony Davies shows that Americans stand to earn significantly less and assume more risk with> |
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Will Higher Tax Rates Balance the Budget?
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Students, get a full week of this at a summer seminar: lrnlbty.co As the US debt and deficit grows, some politicians and economist have called for higher tax rates in order to balance the budget. The question becomes: when> |
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Does the Minimum Wage Hurt Workers?
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Students, get a full week of this at a summer seminar: lrnlbty.co The minimum wage sounds nice on the surface: workers earning $8 per hour would certainly be better off if they were earning $12 per hour instead. But econom> |
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The Trail of Tears: They Knew It Was Wrong
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Students, get a full week of this at a summer seminar: lrnlbty.co The Trail of Tears shouldn't have happened. People at the time knew that it was wrong, that it was illegal, and that it was unconstitutional, but they d> |
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Funding Government by the Minute
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Students, get a full week of this at a summer seminar: lrnlbty.co At the rate the federal government spends, it runs out of money on July 31. What programs should be cut to balance the budget and fund the government for th> |
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What You Should Know About Drug Prohibition
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Students, get a full week of this at a summer seminar: lrnlbty.co In its history, America has experienced two major periods of drug prohibition. This first was the Federal alcohol prohibition from 1920-1933. The second is > |
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Should Government Regulate Monopolies?
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Students, get a full week of this at a summer seminar: lrnlbty.co Before considering government regulation of monopolies, Prof. Lynne Kiesling encourages us to think about the regulation that markets naturally provide. In > |
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The Story of Broke Response
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Students, get a full week of this at a summer seminar: lrnlbty.co Prof. Art Carden responds to "The Story of Broke" (bit.ly a recent video by the creators of "The Story of Stuff." In "The Story of > |
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Can Government Solve the Paradox of Choice?
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Students, get a full week of this at a summer seminar: lrnlbty.co Are the choices provided by a market economy stressful? According to Prof. Mark Pennington, it can definitely be stressful to choose among several different> |
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Liberty and Community: Marx and Smith on Commercial Societies
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Students, get a full week of this at a summer seminar: lrnlbty.co According to Professor James Otteson, one of the greatest challenges often presented against individual liberty and free markets is that they are atomizing.> |
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Do Women Earn Less than Men?
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Students, get a full week of this at a summer seminar: lrnlbty.co Are women discriminated against in the workplace? Looking at the data, women on average earn an annual wage that is approximately 75% that of men, which man> |
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Top Three Common Myths of Capitalism
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Students, get a full week of this at a summer seminar: lrnlbty.co Is being pro-business and pro-capitalism the same? Does capitalism generate an unfair distribution of income? Was capitalism responsible for the most recent> |
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Is the Cost of Living Really Rising?
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Students, get a full week of this at a summer seminar: lrnlbty.co According to Prof. Steve Horwitz, one contemporary economic myth is that the cost of living has consistently risen for Americans over the past century. In f> |
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Individualism vs. Collectivism
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Students, get a full week of this at a summer seminar: lrnlbty.co Prof. Aeon Skoble claims that if we really care about the wellbeing of communities, we should keep in mind the unique and autonomous individuals that make i> |
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Top Three Myths about the Great Depression and the New Deal
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Students, get a full week of this at a summer seminar: lrnlbty.co Historian Stephen Davies names three persistent myths about the Great Depression. Myth #1: Herbert Hoover was a laissez-faire president, and it was his lack> |
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Myth of the Rational Voter
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Students, get a full week of this at a summer seminar: lrnlbty.co Prof. Bryan Caplan discusses his controversial book, The : Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies. His thesis is that a majority of voters err in their thinkin> |
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Ayn Rand: A Leading Lady of the Classical Liberal Tradition
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Students, get a full week of this at a summer seminar: lrnlbty.co How should we understand Ayn Rand's political thought? Prof. Jennifer Burns argues that Rand was a part of the broad classical liberal tradition. Rand&#> |
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Are the Poor Getting Poorer?
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Students, get a full week of this at a summer seminar: lrnlbty.co People often say that "the rich are getting richer while the poor are getting poorer." Economics professor Steve Horwitz explains why in the Unite> |
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How Big Is the US Debt?
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Students, get a full week of this at a summer seminar: lrnlbty.co For more details on the total Federal debt, start on slide 35 of this PowerPoint presentation: www.antolin-davies.com Economics professor Antony Davies illu> |
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