Perspectives Are Universities and Economic Growth Oxymoronic? Malcolm A. Kline September 1, 2016 It was while attending my alma mater—the University of Scranton—three and a half decades ago that I began questioning the…
Perspectives Do colleges + universities=economic growth? Malcolm A. Kline August 23, 2016 Academics have been arguing for decades that colleges and universities are engines of economic growth. Now they seem to have…
Faculty Lounge Hillary Clinton’s Adoption of Bernie Sanders’ ‘Free’ College Tuition would Cost $35 Billion Spencer Irvine August 1, 2016 Considering that the U.S. government already is running a deficit, adding $35 billion to it is not conducive to financial…
Perspectives Peter Schiff On Inflation and the Fed Alex Nitzberg July 29, 2016 The Federal Reserve trumpets inflation as a sign of economic growth, but economist and media personality Peter Schiff told AIM…
Perspectives Peter Schiff Warns About the “Worst Economic Downturn Including the Great Depression” Alex Nitzberg July 12, 2016 The Federal Reserve’s monetary policies have manufactured a “super bubble” that “ … may give us the worst economic downturn…
Faculty Lounge On Exam, “Income Redistribution” is Listed as a Government Function Spencer Irvine May 25, 2016 Um, no it isn’t. Maybe in a socialist state it is, but not in the U.S.: The role of government…
Perspectives Economist Mark Skousen Explains Gross Output Alex Nitzberg May 23, 2016 Despite the theory purveyed by the media, consumer spending is not the strongest catalyst of economic expansion, according to economist…
Perspectives Sanders Misleads Students on Scandinavian Socialism Malcolm A. Kline May 17, 2016 His collegiate followers are receptive to Vermont U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders exhortations that the United States should be more like…
Guest Articles President Obama’s Economic Legacy Roger Aronoff May 10, 2016 As President Obama’s second term nears its end he has begun a media tour emphasizing what he claims are the…
Perspectives Health Care in Academia vs. the Real World Spencer Irvine May 2, 2016 Four Harvard University students won the annual Econometrics World Championship (also known as the Econometric Game) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands….
Perspectives There are Downsides to Tax Cuts? Malcolm A. Kline April 9, 2016 One of the scholars at the recent Philadelphia Society conclave of conservative intellectuals found an unexpected downside to tax cuts….
Perspectives Lenin’s Stubborn Facts Malcolm A. Kline April 8, 2016 Lenin famously said that facts are stubborn things, and they are, no matter how much his fans in academia try…
