If you put three economists in a room together one liberal, one conservative, and one libertarian and discussed minority poverty and its causes, how would the discussion unfold? After many years of reading about this topic from various sources, I have come to believe that the break down would look something like this.
The liberal economist […]
Archive for November, 2007
Nov30th2007
Paradigms Of Poverty
Published by in Economics, General, ModernPolitics, Personal and Poverty. 3 CommentsNov29th2007
Some notable key findings from a recently released Pew Research Center survey on race values and identity:
(1) African Americans see a widening gulf between the values of middle class and poor blacks, and nearly four-in-ten (37%) say that because of the diversity within their community, blacks can no […]
Nov28th2007
” If we look at the history of Western civilization, we find that Christianity has illuminated the greatest achievements of the culture. Read the new atheist books and make a list of the institutions and values that Hitchens and Dawkins and the others cherish the most. They value the idea of the individual, and the […]
Nov27th2007
The Importance Of Early Education And School Choice’s Part
Published by in Economics, Education, General, Inequality and Vouchers. 0 Comments“Dutch parents can indeed choose their children’s school. The schools are good, even though the country spends less on education than the OECD average. And, crucially, Dutch schools are selective - something that Britain supposedly lost when it abolished most grammar schools in the 1960s and 1970s. Whereas British kids used to be selected for […]
Nov21st2007
Well its been almost a year since I visited my grandma and family in Monterrey, Mexico and given that she is in her 90’s, I want to see as much of her as I can. So in a few hours I get on a plane and head out for a much needed vacation.
Here is the […]
Nov21st2007
Quote Of The Day
Published by in Capitalism, Discrimination, Economics, General and Hispanics (Minority Issues). 3 Comments“The idea that an American could, under any circumstance of naturalization, become a governor of an Indian province, or be elected to high office in Austria seems remote. Yet we take the inverse for granted here. On Sunday night I spoke to a Jewish group in Fresno in support of Israel; on Wednesday I debated […]
Nov20th2007
The video is viewable here. Via my friend Peter.
A must see for anybody interested in Latin America.
Nov20th2007
Quote Of The Day
Published by in Economics, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and Poverty. 0 Comments“I tend to think that race is over-rated as a predictive factor in America. For instance, in education, they always talk about the “black-white test gap.” They never talk about the “unwed mother vs. two-parent test gap.” I’ll bet that the latter is larger”. –Arnold Kling, discussing Walter Williams article on broken families and poverty
Nov19th2007
“Opposing school vouchers is, for basically every single person who does so, a completely costless belief. You get the pleasure of “supporting public education”; [while] someone else’s kid, whom you will thankfully never meet, loses their future.” –Megan McArdle
Nov17th2007
“. . as far as test scores improving and such, it seems that people who focus on that exclusively might be bewildered by why inner city parents like the voucher school a lot better than the public school. Even if their child’s chance of going to the state university is not increased by his new […]
Nov16th2007
“In fact, for the malcontents of Hollywood, academia, and the catwalks, Chávez is an ideal ally. Just as the sympathetic foreigners whom Lenin called “useful idiots” once supported Russia abroad, their modern equivalents provide the Venezuelan president with legitimacy, attention, and good photographs. He, in turn, helps them overcome the frustration John Reed once felt—the […]
Nov15th2007
Glen Whitman, blogging in Agoraphilia blog, asks an important question:
There are plenty of other goods and services that we want to make sure people have; food, shelter, and clothing come to mind. But with food, do we expect the government to run the farms and grocery stores? No. If some people can’t afford food, […]
Nov14th2007
The Irrelevance Of Income Inequality
Published by in Economics, General, Inequality and StdOfLiving. 0 Comments“Nevertheless, measures of inequality of incomes do indeed vastly overstate the inequality of material living standards. Nearly all Americans enjoy easy access to the likes of microwave ovens, cell phones, the Internet, and MP3 players, as well as, of course, to food, clothing, and shelter. So the differences separating the super-rich from ordinary […]
Nov13th2007
“However, if poverty is defined in the relative sense, the lowest fifth of income-earners, “poverty” will always be with us. No matter how poverty is defined, if I were an unborn spirit, condemned to a life of poverty, but God allowed me to choose which nation I wanted to be poor in, I’d choose the […]
Nov12th2007
“…too much of the conversation has been about the effect of all this on the party - about whether the GOP is condemning itself to years in the electoral wilderness by alienating an influential constituency. What I haven’t heard enough about is how this neglect hurts Hispanic voters. In politics, the surest path to irrelevance […]
Nov10th2007
Karl Rove On The Democrat Congress One Year Anniversary
Published by in General and ModernPolitics. 2 CommentsHe writes:
This week is the one-year anniversary of Democrats winning Congress. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid probably aren’t in a celebrating mood. The goodwill they enjoyed after their victory is gone. Their bright campaign promises are unfulfilled. Democratic leadership is in disarray. And Congress’s approval rating has fallen to […]
