Archive for Candace Allen
In Defense of Markets and Misers
Candace Allen is a member of the affliliate economics faculty at the University of Southern Colorado. Dwight Lee, a contributing editor of The Freeman, is Ramsey Professor of Economics and Private Enterprise at the University of Georgia. Markets and misers are greatly under-appreciated for the same reason: people fail to see the value of the [...]
1Apr1998 | Candace Allen | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Entrepreneur on the Heroic Journey
Ms. Allen is a teacher-on-special-assignment in the Education Alliance of Pueblo, Colorado. Dr. Lee is Ramsey Professor of Economics at the University of Georgia. What do you want to be when you grow up? was a question that adults regularly posed to all of us when we were young. Generally, even as children, we imagined [...]
1Apr1997 | and Candace Allen | 1 comment | ContinuedA Good Conversation and the Marketplace
Ms. Allen is a teacher-on-special-assignment in the Education Alliance of Pueblo, Colorado. Dr. Lee is Ramsey Professor of Economics at the University of Georgia. Everyone appreciates a good conversation. Through conversation people get to know one another, sort out their differences, revel in their similarities, and discover ways to cooperate and compromise to their mutual [...]
1Oct1996 | Candace Allen | 0 comments | ContinuedA Report Card on Charter Schools
At the time this article was published, Candace Allen (now Candace Smith) was a social studies and economics teacher at the Pueblo School for the Arts and Sciences, a Colorado charter school. A year ago I resigned from teaching in a local high school to accept a position at a new charter school. Charter schools [...]
1Oct1995 | Candace Allen | 0 comments | ContinuedFortunately, It’s Just a Game
Ms. Allen is a social studies and economics teacher at the Pueblo School of the Arts and Sciences, a Colorado charter school. I haven’t played Monopoly for years and years. But a few nights ago I was given another chance. After I’d banned the television for the evening, my twelve-year-old son persuaded me to play [...]
1Apr1995 | Candace Allen | 0 comments | Continued-
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