All Posts Tagged With: "mathematics"
State-Mandated Thinking
Is this statement true? “If SpongeBob SquarePants is the mayor of Minneapolis, then Napoleon lost the Battle of Waterloo.” It is. On the other hand, this is not: “If Napoleon lost the Battle of Waterloo, then Spongebob Squarepants is the Mayor of Minneapolis.” Confused? Welcome to our government-school curricula. In the July/August 2011 issue of [...]
4Jan2012 | Peter McAllister | 6 comments | ContinuedAlgorithms Can’t Pick College Football Champions or Predict Economies
A mathematical formula cannot tell us what the U.S. economy (or any other economy) is going to do next year.
1Dec2010 | William L. Anderson | 19 comments | ContinuedWhat’s Wrong with How We Teach Economics
Brandon Crocker is a real estate executive in San Diego. The decline in the core curricula of universities and the growing “cultural illiteracy” of high school and college graduates have been lamented in many books and articles. As universities have redesigned their curricula to fit the demands of political correctness and the particular interests of [...]
1May2003 | Brandon Crocker | 0 comments | ContinuedA Beautiful Movie, Lousy Economics
A Beautiful Mind, winner of this year’s Academy Award for Best Motion Picture, dramatizes the life of John Forbes Nash, who in 1994 was a co-winner of the Nobel Prize in economics. It was based in part on Sylvia Nasar’s 1998 biography of the same name. As the first major Hollywood movie that centers on [...]
1Aug2002 | Sandy Ikeda | 1 comment | ContinuedCapitalism and the Zero
John Hood is president of the John Locke Foundation, a state policy think tank in North Carolina, and author of The Heroic Enterprise: Business and the Common Good (Free Press). In traditional discussions of the rise of free-market capitalism, great attention is paid to changes in institutions, technologies, and ideologies. We read the great philosophers [...]
1Dec2000 | John Hood | 1 comment | ContinuedVienna and Chicago: A Tale of Two Schools
Since its inception, the Foundation for Economic Education has been associated with two free-market schools, the Austrian school of Ludwig von Mises and, to a lesser extent, the Chicago school of Milton Friedman. Mises, after leaving Vienna for New York City, was closely involved with Leonard Read, FEE’s founder. He spoke frequently at FEE’s headquarters in Irvington-on-Hudson, and wrote regularly for The Freeman.
1Feb1998 | Mark Skousen | 2 comments | Continued-
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