Archive for James E. McClure

Immigration: Friend or Foe?

James McClure and T. Norman Van Cott are professors of economics at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.   Give me your tired, your poor,   Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door! [...]

1Oct1993 | | 1 comment | Continued

Americans Overfed?

Drs. Van Cott and McClure are professors of economics at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. Americans comprise five percent of the world’s population, yet consume 25 percent of world’s economic pie. Left-leaning pundits, professors, and preachers delight in juxtaposing these statistics to “prove” that Americans are materialistic, wasteful, and overfed. Many Americans accept this [...]

1Aug1993 | | 2 comments | Continued

The Job Abacus: No Guide to Public Policy

Professors McClure and Van Cott teach in the Department of Economics at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. Media economic “experts” typically gauge economic events by counting jobs. Regardless of the issue, they measure the desirability of policies and outcomes in terms of the jobs that are allegedly created or destroyed. To the “experts,” a never-ending [...]

1Apr1988 | | 0 comments | Continued

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