Archive for Dirk Yandell
California’s Man-Made Drought
Dirk Yandell is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of San Diego. Michael Paganelli is a student of business and economics at the University of San Diego. Californians and other Westerners are feeling the effects of a fifth year of drought. Reservoirs are at record lows, river levels have dropped significantly, and the Sierra [...]
1Aug1991 | Dirk Yandell | 0 comments | ContinuedGrowth Controls and Individual Liberties
Professors Sandy and Yandell teach economics at the School of Business Administration, University of San Diego. A fundamental freedom in the United States is the ability to travel, and to move and live wherever an individual finds the greatest opportunities. However, this freedom is increasingly coming under attack. Although no policies exist that directly regulate [...]
1Feb1989 | Jonathan Sandy | 0 comments | ContinuedOccupational Licensing
Dr. Yandell is Assistant Professor of Economics, School of Business Administration, University of San Diego. In these “deregulatory” times, the ingenuity of governments and special interest groups in constraining free enterprise is astonishing. Recent legislation has continued to block entry into particular markets by requiring governmentally provided licenses as a condition for operating in those [...]
1Jan1985 | Dirk Yandell | 0 comments | Continued-
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JPMorgan Chase and Casino Banking
JPMorgan Chase & Co., one of the nation’s leading banks, revealed in May that a London trader racked... Read More
Individualism, Trade-Unions, and “Self-Governing Combinations”
Who do you imagine said this? “[Trade-unions] seem natural to the passing phase of social evolution,... Read More
Bubbles, Malinvestment, and Higher Education
Many commentators are asking whether the next big bubble to burst will be the debt associated with the... Read More
JPMorgan’s Blunder Is No Market Failure
I am not going to try to defend JPMorgan Chase for its recent, widely reported financial blunders. ... Read More
For Equality; Against Privilege
This TGIF originally ran July 7, 2006. The freedom philosophy can be boiled down to two phrases: for... Read More




