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Bagwell Center Commentary
Bagwell Center Commentaries provide a discussion of relevant news items, public policy issues, or other current issues from an economic perspective. Each Commentary is an expression of the views of the writers (and not the Bagwell Center). Commentaries are eligible for publication elsewhere (such as peer-reviewed academic journals).
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2025
"America's Oasis Desert" by , (August 2025) - part of KSU's Year of the United Kingdom
"Cuomo Says What!?" by , (July 2025)
"The DOGE Hoax: An Angry Economist鈥檚 Rebuke" by , (June 2025)
"Are We in a Recession? Are We Heading to One?" by , (May 2025)
"Herbert Dow Destroys Predatory Prices" by , (April 2025)
"Congressional District Level Allocation of Electoral College Votes" by , , , and (March 2025)
"The New Tools of Monetary Policy: A Brief Economics Lesson" by , (February 2025)
"Behind the Disconnect between Consumer Sentiment and the Macroeconomy" by , (January 2025)
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2024
"Why I Think the U.S. is More Socialist and Less Competitive than Europe" by , (December 2024)
"AI Against the Rest: From Renaissance Alley to Silicon Valley" by , (November 2024)
"'Price Gouging' in the Wake of a Natural Disaster: A Brief Economics Lesson" by (October 2024)
"Presidential Elections: Electoral College versus National Popular Vote" by , , , and (September 2024)
"The Importance of Omaha to the 2024 Presidential Election" by , , , and (August 2024)
"The Debt the World Owes to the United States" by , (June 2024)
"The Parable of the Towns" by , (May 2024)
"Do the Rich Pay Their Fair Share of Taxes?" by , (April 2024)
"Open AI's Legal Battles and the Penguin Effect" by , (March 2024)
"Overtime Rules" by , , , , and , (February 2024)
"The Term Spread, Quantitative Easing, and the Probability of Recession" by , (January 2024)
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2023
"The Impact of Authoritarian State Capitalism on Economic Freedom in T眉rkiye" by , (December 2023)
"On the Thermodynamic Properties of Capitalism" by , (November 2023)
"On What Does the Federal Government Spend Its Money?" by , (August 2023)
"Why Can't Government Successfully Create Jobs?" by , (July 2023)
"Competing Tournament Organizers: the case of LIV Golf and the PGA TOUR" by , and (June 2023)
"It's Time to Kick Billionaires Off the Dole: Subsidizing Stadiums is Welfare for the Rich, Not Economic Development" by , (May 2023)
"Infrastructure, yes. Federal aid, no." by , (April 2023)
"The Sacred Triumvirate of Neo-Marxism" by , (March 2023)
"Is Profit Maximization or Social Responsibility the Morally Correct Goal of Business?" (Part 4) by , (February 2023)
"What Would Be the Macroeconomic Effects of a Corporate Tax Hike?"by , (January 2023)
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2022
"Is Profit Maximization or Social Responsibility the Morally Correct Goal of Business?" (Part 3) by , (December 2022)
"Corruption's Effect on the Stock Market in Different Economies" by , (November 2022)
"Is Profit Maximization or Social Responsibility the Morally Correct Goal of Business?" (Part 2) by , (October 2022)
"Free Trade Agreements: Economics or Politics?" by , (September 2022)
"Is the Current Inflation Rate 0% or is it 8.5%? Yes and Yes!" by (August 2022)
"Everything Wrong with the Economic Policies of Theodore Roosevelt" by ., (June 2022)
"Is Profit Maximization or Social Responsibility the Morally Correct Goal of Business?" (Part 1) by , (April 2022)
"Have the Atlanta Braves Been a Home Run for Cobb?" by , (March 2022)
"Three Big Myths about the Income Tax" by ., (January 2022)
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2021
"Why Turkey鈥檚 Lowering of the Interest Rate is the Wrong Monetary Policy Tool to Fight Spiraling Inflation" by , (December 2021)
"Pharmaceutical Regulation is at the Root of the Antibiotic Resistance Crisis" by , (November 2021)
"The Economics of Retirement: A Primer (Part 3)" by , (October 2021)
"Measuring the Impact of Economic Sanctions: Does a Better Quality of the Dependent Variable Matter?" by , (September 2021)
"The Economics of Retirement: A Primer (Part 2)" by , (August 2021)
"The Other Path: Canada" by , (July 2021)
"The Economics of Retirement: A Primer (Part 1)" by , (June 2021)
"Why McDonald's Is Wrong About the Minimum Wage" by , and , (May 2021)
"Not Death, but the Other Thing" by , (April 2021)
"Basic Economic Theory and the DOJ's Google Lawsuit" by , (March 2021)
"The COVID-19 Employment Prospects of Women" by , (February 2021)
"How the Wage Gap is Calculated, Why it is Wrong, & What We Can Do About It" by , (January 2021)
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2020
"Why U.S. Immigration Policy Should Favor Highly Educated and Skilled Immigrants" by , (December 2020)
"Not Taxes, but the Other Thing" by , (November 2020)
"The Economist's Approach to Thinking about Discrimination (and Other Issues)" by , (October 2020)
"Computers Still Cannot Plan an Economy" by , (September 2020)
"Competitive Markets Eliminate Discrimination: the Example of Professional Sports" by , (August 2020)
"Much to Celebrate: Romania's Transition to an Open Economy 1989-2019" by (July 2020)
"Revisiting the Economic Good from a Pandemic" by , (June 2020)
"The Great Pantomime" by , (May 2020)
"The Economics of Emergency Pricing: Immoral Behavior by Buyers when Prices Fall?" by , (April 2020)
"The Economic Good of a Pandemic" by , (March 2020)
"Why Competitive Markets Discourage Discrimination" by , (February 2020)
"Video Games" by , (January 2020)
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2019
"Vending Machines, Government Policy, and Economic Organization" by , (November 2019)
"Inequality of Incomes and of Alcohol Consumption in the U.S." by , (October 2019)
"Do Labor Markets Discriminate Against Women?" by , (September 2019)
"Hong Kong's Protests Are About Economic Freedom and Opportunity" by , (August 2019)