Big Ideas
These stories are conceptual--food for thought.
- Abolish the SAT Charles Murray 07/13/2007
- The SAT got him into Harvard from a small Iowa town. But now, CHARLES MURRAY wants to abolish the test. It’s unnecessary and, worse, a negative force in American life.
- The Human Factor Sally Satel 07/10/2007
- Drug abuse causes hundreds of billions of dollars in economic losses and untold personal heartache. How to limit the damage? SALLY SATEL suggests we start by ditching the ‘brain disease’ model that’s popular with scientists and focus on treating addicts as people with the power to reshape their own lives. Despite its own prejudices, an HBO series transmits just this message of responsibility and optimism.
- The Principled Entrepreneur The American 07/09/2007
- With a little help from Hayek, Mises, and Maslow, the CEO of America’s largest private company, Charles Koch, spreads the gospel of ‘market-based management.’
- Blissfully Uneducated Victor Davis Hanson 07/09/2007
- Colleges lost their way in the 1960s, contends VICTOR DAVIS HANSON, a classics professor. Students now get a ‘therapeutic curriculum’ instead of learning hard facts and inductive inquiry. The result: we can’t answer the questions of our time.
- An Amateur Economist Defends Mainstream Culture David Robinson 07/06/2007
- A new book on the evils of digital media is bold, provocative, and economically benighted.
- Government’s Helping Hand also Hurts John Santoliquido 07/05/2007
- The minimum wage increase will hurt our most vulnerable workers.
- John Lott, Loaded Robert VerBruggen 06/28/2007
- The economist’s new book fires back at Steven Levitt and other critics.
- Not Another Cure-All Pill for Poverty Josh Weissburg 06/25/2007
- What the poor need is options, not prescriptions.
- A Bettor World Caren Chesler 05/25/2007
- Once apprenticed to a bookie, Justin Wolfers of Wharton now draws economic insight from the behavior of gamblers.
- Water, Water Roger Bate 05/24/2007
- It may be everywhere, but it’s scarce as well. How to use water most efficiently? Roger Bate finds the solution in a nation undergoing the worst drought in 1,000 years: Australia.