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Ranking State Economic Competitiveness | The Policy Paladin
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Defending Sound Fiscal Policy. Capitalism and the Poor. Ranking State Economic Competitiveness. August 15, 2014. August 15, 2014. During the time that I worked with the American Legislative Exchange Council, I had the pleasure of contributing to the production of. Rich States, Poor States. A book that uses a set of metrics to rank states both in economic performance and in economic outlook. The book further studies different trends that happened in the year prior to publication. October 8, 2014 at 6:00 pm.
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Ahmed’s Clock and Zero-Tolerance: A Personal Experience | The Policy Paladin
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Defending Sound Fiscal Policy. Capitalism and the Poor. Ahmed’s Clock and Zero-Tolerance: A Personal Experience. September 19, 2015. September 19, 2015. Last year, 15 year old Dontadrian Bruce held up three fingers in a picture of his school biology project. The next school day he was suspended. Several days later, he received a recommendation for expulsion, on the grounds that the gesture was similar to a gang sign. But thousands of others, like Dontadrian, are not so lucky. We are allowing their sm...
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The Silver Bullet: How Free Markets Can Win Back the Millennial Generation | The Policy Paladin
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Defending Sound Fiscal Policy. Capitalism and the Poor. The Silver Bullet: How Free Markets Can Win Back the Millennial Generation. October 8, 2015. Capital in the Twenty First Century. What remains now is for a political force to leverage the millennial opportunity to counter the past few years of statist victories. The party of economic freedom has traditionally been the Republicans. But riding the millennial wave will take more than a few awkwardly produced videos by the national organization&...Final...
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Thoughts on Homelessness | The Policy Paladin
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Defending Sound Fiscal Policy. Capitalism and the Poor. February 11, 2016. February 11, 2016. I was riding to UCLA on Westwood Blvd, when suddenly a voice pierced through the cloud of my thoughts, “Do you have a moment? 8221; I will admit I was startled. Most people do not talk to bike riders on busy streets. The source of the voice startled me even more than the voice itself: a woman in a wheelchair with two huge shopping carts full of objects. 8221; She did not want money. I was immediately a little de...
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Sources | The Policy Paladin
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Defending Sound Fiscal Policy. Capitalism and the Poor. Here is a list of interesting sources that I read for fiscal policy news:. Http:/ www.washintongpost.com. Http:/ www.americanlegislator.com. Http:/ www.cato.org. Http:/ www.aei.org. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. On The Case ...
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Blending Social Protection Theory with Heckscher-Olin in Trade Agreement Analysis | The Policy Paladin
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Defending Sound Fiscal Policy. Capitalism and the Poor. Blending Social Protection Theory with Heckscher-Olin in Trade Agreement Analysis. June 24, 2015. In light of the recent trade deal controversies, I decided to post the following paper I wrote regarding how social protection affects free trade politics within various countries:. My idea is only relevant when examining countries with similar factor endowments. For the purposes of this paper, I will only analyze countries with a relative scarcity ...
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The Question of Sweatshops: Cutting out the Bleeding Heart Arguments | The Policy Paladin
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Defending Sound Fiscal Policy. Capitalism and the Poor. The Question of Sweatshops: Cutting out the Bleeding Heart Arguments. October 27, 2015. October 27, 2015. Is actually hurting small growers or producers in poor countries. But that is a discussion for a different time. This is a narrative that pulls at the heart strings. But deeper analysis shows that it privileges rich consumer conscience (and rich country labor unions) over poor worker welfare. Let me explain. I sat in a class several years ago wh...
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Defending Sound Fiscal Policy. Capitalism and the Poor. The DRC and the Data: Economic Failure is Not a Necessary Result of State Failure. May 8, 2015. To bring context to this essay, I ran an exploratory large-N regression with economic growth as the dependent variable and state fragility [1]. As the independent variable [2]. I controlled for resource extraction and relative wealth by including per capita GDP and percent of GDP dedicated to resource rents [3]. Proportion of GDP from Resource Rents.
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Higher Education Funding Series: How the Wrong Assumption Drives the Wrong Policies | The Policy Paladin
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Defending Sound Fiscal Policy. Capitalism and the Poor. Higher Education Funding Series: How the Wrong Assumption Drives the Wrong Policies. October 21, 2015. October 21, 2015. The affordability of college in tandem with the student loan debt crisis has been a hot topic at UCLA and a lot of other places for a long time now. The topic is important, because as a society we have chosen to provide federal support for education. The reasons for this choice are simple:. The Question of Sweatshops: Cutting out ...
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