Tag: Victor Claar
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The Keynesian Revolution and Our Empty Economy: We’re All Dead – Book Review
The Keynesian Revolution and Our Empty Economy: We're All Dead (Quotes are from the e-book version.) Is economics value-free? Can it be? In the nineteenth century, economics emerged alongside other social sciences, aspiring to apply the scientific method to study human behavior. Economists distinguish positive and normative economics – positive being descriptive and normative being…
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“Is Fair Trade Fair?” – Primer on Free Trade Coffee
What are the economic merits of Free Trade Coffee? In this video, my friend Victor Claar (professor of economics at Henderson State University) gives a 25 minute presentation about the economics of fair trade. It was originally presented at the Macmillan's EconEd Conference last year. The audience is economics teachers, but the presentation is accessible…
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Is Fair Trade Coffee Curing Poverty?
Acton Institute PowerBlog: Is Fair Trade Coffee Curing Poverty? Sarah Stanley does a great job summarizing Victor Claar's take on Fair Trade Coffee: “Who could be against fairness?” Victor Claar asked this question at Acton University last month. He and Travis Hester gave a talk titled, “Fair Trade Versus Free Trade” with their focus on…
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Fair Trade? Its Prospects as a Poverty Solution
A couple of years ago, economist Victor Claar published a monograph analyzing the effectiveness of fair-trade coffee as a poverty solution. I wrote the foreward. The Kindle version of the monograph is free at Amazon today only. Can't get much fairer than free! 😉 Fair Trade? Its Prospects as a Poverty Solution
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Political clunkers (Interview with Victor Claar)
World: Political clunkers We should 'treat people as people,' says economist Victor Claar, and U.S. trade restrictions fail that test. "Support by another means" examines the benefits and detriments of sending some U.S. products to Africa. I asked economics professor Victor Claar (Henderson State University) about other ways we can help the poor internationally. Claar…
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Forced sharing leads to disappointment, bad behavior at church picnic
FortWayne.com: Forced sharing leads to disappointment, bad behavior at church picnic (HT: Victor Claar and his mom) When I was 12 years old, the Youth of First Christian Church had a picnic at Honor Heights Park in Muskogee, Okla. The good ladies of the church brought loads of potato salad, baked beans and coleslaw, but…
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Meaningful Work and the Economics Nobel
Powerblog: Meaningful Work and the Economics Nobel Victor Claar …. In some markets — where information is low-cost and individual buyers and sellers are not particularly unique — parties can quickly find each other and engage in mutually-beneficial exchanges. Any buyer is happy to trade with any seller as long as the price seems reasonable…
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Grieving the Good of Others
On Monday, economist Victor Claar gave an interesting presentation at the American Enterprise Institute called Grieving the Good of Others. It focused on envy. Victor is co-author with Robin Klay of Economics in Christian Perspective. He has commented here a few times, and I had the privilege of writing the foreward to his book Fair…
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“Fair Trade? Its Prospects as a Poverty Solution” – Book Review
I was in my first semester of the M.B.A. economic development program at Eastern University twenty-three years ago. I took a required class that exposed us to development theories and presented worldwide case studies on development efforts. It was a semester-long immersion in futility. The class had its desired effect. I'm haunted by how easy…