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Economics

What Actually Happens When You Raise the Minimum Wage

Tyler O'Neil | June 4, 2015 | Economics

What Actually Happens When You Raise the Minimum Wage

Contrary to popular belief, raising the minimum wage won’t make everyone richer, but it will make a great deal of poor people poorer—or more accurately, out of work. Advocates for raising the minimum wage are attempting the impossible, because it is impossible to...

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Tyler O'Neil is the Senior Editor of PJ Media and a conservative commentator.

How to Be Persuasive: The Scarcity Principle

Jacqueline Isaacs | May 28, 2015 | Economics

How to Be Persuasive: The Scarcity Principle

This is the end of a conversation about persuasion. We’ve been examining Robert Cialdini’s book, “Influence: Science and Practice,” and his six principles for being persuasive. We’ve already discussed Reciprocation, Commitment and Consistency, Social Proof, Liking,...

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Jacqueline Isaacs is the Director of Strategy for Bellwether Communications, where she crafts content strategies for thought leaders.

CEOs & Fair Wage to Workers: A Christian Perspective, Part I

Kurt Jaros | May 26, 2015 | Economics

CEOs & Fair Wage to Workers: A Christian Perspective, Part I

Dan Price, the CEO of Gravity Payments, made recent headlines by slashing his own annual income from $1,000,000 to $70,000. In doing so, and in cutting from some of the company’s profits, Price has raised the minimum salary of his employees to $70,000. Many have...

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Kurt Jaros is the Executive Director of Defenders Media.

Friday Five: Crafting a Moral Bucket List

Faith and Public Life | April 17, 2015 | Economics

Friday Five: Crafting a Moral Bucket List

On Fridays, we bring the week’s best from around the web. The content in this week’s collection explains how Millennials are redeeming capitalism, why the GOP ought to support a new kind of tax plan, and more. “Christian Millennials Work to Redeem Capitalism” by Elise...

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Three Ways to Prevent ‘Adjunct Hell’

Kurt Jaros | April 7, 2015 | Economics

Three Ways to Prevent ‘Adjunct Hell’

As someone interested in economics and academia, sometimes the two mix and I begin to think about the economics of academia. For those unfamiliar with the state of employment in academia, there has become something known as “Adjunct Hell.” Adjunct Hell is the place...

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Kurt Jaros is the Executive Director of Defenders Media.

Two Opposing Visions of the Marketplace

Wesley Gant | April 6, 2015 | Economics

Two Opposing Visions of the Marketplace

The marketplace is complex and confusing. Even economists who have spent their whole careers studiously researching market behaviors disagree widely about policy recommendations. But views about how markets function can generally be simplified into two worldviews. The...

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Wesley Gant is the Director of Strategic Communications at Polymath, a creative agency.