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I miss my paternal grandparents. They were fantastic. I spent a lot of time with them growing up. Perhaps that’s why I have such a special fondness for the Greatest Generation. My super cool grandfather back in the day: Members of the Greatest Generation were children during The Great Depression. Their college years were interrupted…

In doing research for the Back to the Sack project, I have been running across a wide variety of arguments against banning plastic bags. The Wall Street Journal recently posted an article about the dangers of reusable shopping bags. And on Oct 7th, 2008, amid fears of our economic crisis, Savetheplasticbag.com published a press release…

In preparation for an article I’m working on, I e-mailed about 50 female college students and asked them these questions: 1) Are you voting in the 2008 election? Why or why not? 2) What are the issues that matter the most to you in this election? 3) What about this election inspires you the most?…

I don’t have much of a background in economics, having only taken a few survey courses in grad school, but it always seemed apparent to me that the discipline as a whole makes dubious fundamental and unexamined assumptions about human life, and that policy makers all too eagerly set policy based on these assumptions. Thankfully,…
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