Tenure Should Retire
In this post I will provide some reasons for why schools (and governments) should stop providing tenure to professionals. Tenure is a guarantee of permanent employment—unless you do something heinous....
View Article‘Workless’ in Seattle
Recently the city of Seattle passed a law that increases its minimum wage to $15/hour. According to Yahoo! Finance writer Kathy Cherpelis, “Seattle took a big step toward closing the income gap...
View ArticleDo Unsold Cars Have Mass Graves?
I’ve recently been doing some car research because my family is beginning to outgrow our current vehicle. My wife and I have worked out our different schedules to hold us down to a one-car family, but...
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The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge: A Cold Look
This summer’s social phenomenon was the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. Unless you abstain from social media, your newsfeed was probably flooded with videos of friends dumping buckets of ice water on their...
View ArticleThe Problem of Suburban Poverty
The terms “suburban” and “poverty” are often ones you don’t see next to each other, much less ones that go hand in hand. But interestingly enough, there are growing pockets of poverty in suburban...
View ArticleSuburban Poverty: The Gospel, Government, and Capitalism
In my previous post I introduced my interview with Dr. Rev. Daniel Meyer of Christ Church of Oak Brook. I asked him a few questions on suburban poverty, what role the Gospel plays in alleviating...
View ArticlePractical Advice for Tackling Suburban Poverty
In my previous post I continued my interview with Dr. Rev. Daniel Meyer of Christ Church of Oak Brook. We looked at the roles the Gospel, government, and capitalism have in alleviating poverty. In this...
View ArticleThree Ways to Prevent ‘Adjunct Hell’
As someone interested in economics and academia, sometimes the two mix and I begin to think about the economics of academia. For those unfamiliar with the state of employment in academia, there has...
View ArticleCEOs & Fair Wage to Workers: A Christian Perspective, Part I
Dan Price, the CEO of Gravity Payments, made recent headlines by slashing his own annual income from $1,000,000 to $70,000. In doing so, and in cutting from some of the company’s profits, Price has...
View ArticleCEOs & Fair Wage to Workers: A Christian Perspective, Part II
In my previous post I wrote about how we can determine the value of CEOs to their respective organizations. My solution was modest: we simply aren’t in a position to know how much investors or...
View ArticleEconomic Lessons from ‘Star Wars’ Planet Jakku
In “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”—which at this point I’m sure most of us have seen—we are exposed to some fundamental principles of economics. In this post I would like to examine three principles:...
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