Tag Archives: economics

Eliminate the Corporate Income Tax?

Yeah, I’m interested in what all of you have to say about this. I’ll be blunt – I’m all for this. I feel that a genuinely entrepreneurial culture can help America greatly, even though I can conceive of other sorts of “regimes” that would be good but have different values. The article for discussion is …

February 7, 2009 – 5:56 pm | By ashok | Posted in politics | Tagged | Comments (9)

More on whether the US is a nation of predatory lending and unwarranted debt, or a land of opportunity, or what

At least 3 of my friends have objected to Barbara Dafoe Whitehead’s lament that once upon a time we were a thrifty nation and savings were stable and grew well and now boohoohoo nothing works anymore because people can invest their own money. No one is saying there aren’t problems with the current arrangement, but …

August 21, 2008 – 9:08 am | By ashok | Posted in politics | Tagged | Comments (0)

Two Very Important Articles on Value, Economics and Public Policy

Barbara Dafoe Whitehead’s examination of how America changed from a pro-thrift culture to one in which predatory lenders laud themselves as democratic might be the most important article for my generation. We have to take credit card loans out to pay college tuition – the notion that we just spend too much money on frivolity …

August 16, 2008 – 5:54 pm | By ashok | Posted in links | Tagged | Comments (1)

Rant: Is a Society that Obsesses over Economic Issues in Political Decline?

This is all over the place: it ties together, but doesn’t address exactly what’s wrong with how we’re talking about the issues – something about our talk feels alien. It will need to be expanded upon later, and made much more nuanced. [Critobulus:] “But if one who is wicked is unable to acquire gentlemanly (noble …

April 10, 2008 – 5:16 pm | By ashok | Posted in politics, xenophon | Tagged | Comments (1)

Reconceiving Economics

The word economics comes from the Greek word for “household management,” and I want it to be more about our choices in daily life than about “the wealth of nations.” 1. While arguing over an inheritance tax here and here, it dawned on me that I need to be explicit about what the relation between …

October 14, 2007 – 11:56 am | By ashok | Posted in politics | Tagged | Comments (1)

Is This Stuff Really Scholarship? This Can’t Be Real

Please assess this, and tell me it’s some sort of joke It would seem to me that the “economic-historical” thesis that the Industrial Revolution occurred because of a change in human evolution could be defeated merely by arguing that a change in ideas occurred earlier. “The Wealth of Nations” was published in 1776; a certain …

August 9, 2007 – 8:11 am | By ashok | Posted in academia | Tagged , | Comments (4)