Archive for Christopher Westley
Christopher Westley is a professor of economics at Jacksonville State University in Alabama.
The Coming Generational Storm: What You Need to Know about America’s Economic Future
Boston University’s Laurence Kotlikoff is a serious scholar who has devoted much of his professional life to examining Social Security. What he writes on this issue it’s wise to read. The Coming Generational Storm, co-authored with Dallas-based financial columnist Scott Burns, is a worthwhile book. Their description of the fiscal nightmare known as Social Security [...]
13Jul2010 | Christopher Westley | 0 comments | ContinuedHow Not to Respond to Higher Gasoline Prices
Mix together surging gasoline prices, a conflict in the Middle East, and a presidential election year, and what do you get? Given the sorry state of economic education among our political elites, you are likely to find bad energy – policy proposals and an increased willingness to intervene in the very market forces that are [...]
1Jul2010 | and David N. Laband | 2 comments | ContinuedThe “I Hate the Poor” Act of 2009
So I was shaving the other day, and the man on the morning talk radio show was on a roll. Cash for Clunkers was being temporarily shut down, or so declared the PR flack in the Department of Waste that administers the program, and Talk Show Guy thought this taught great lessons. “This was a good program! [...]
23Oct2009 | Christopher Westley | 4 comments | ContinuedAin’t My America: The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism
The abysmal 2008 presidential election should have Americans scratching their heads, pondering how the political economy of the United States devolved into a duopoly of two nearly identical, state-loving political parties that are always ready to intervene militarily anywhere on the planet. It was not always this way, and how we got here is the [...]
24Apr2009 | Christopher Westley | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Economics of Spam
What’s the matter with the Internet? I used to love it, at least the part of it that brought e-mail. One of the highlights of my day used to be Outlook Express’s friendly tone announcing that another e-mail had arrived in my inbox. Then I would stop what I was doing to see which friend [...]
1Nov2003 | Christopher Westley | 2 comments | ContinuedWinners and Losers in the Transfer Game
I like lists, be they David Letterman’s Top Ten lists, the mainstream historians’ best-presidents lists, or my wife’s honey-do lists. They tell us much about the kind of society in which we live. Frequently, these lists reveal more about whoever compiled them than about whatever data is actually included on them. One list in particular [...]
1Sep2001 | Christopher Westley | 0 comments | Continued-
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Contraception: Insuring the Uninsurable
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The Snow Plowers’ Petition
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Super Bowl versus Education?
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Capitalism, Corporatism, and the Freed Market
When a front-running presidential contender tells the country that thanks to Barack Obama, “[w]e are... Read More
Creating Jobs versus Creating Value
Picking on New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is one of the largest participation sports on the Internet.... Read More
