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Economics

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.

Micro-Entrepreneurs and the Industrial Revolution

Joel Montgomery | March 19, 2015 | Economics

Micro-Entrepreneurs and the Industrial Revolution

The human brain weighs just three pounds and yet it contains around 86 billion neurons. Neurogrid, a new circuit board developed at Stanford and modeled on the human brain, is 9,000 times faster than the average computer yet it effectively contains some 86,000 times...

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Joel Montgomery

Joel Montgomery has worked in 31 countries, lived in five, and speaks three languages. With a career straddling the private and social sectors, Joel has experience working with large Fortune 100 companies and small startups.

Friday Five: The Secret to a Healthy Society

Faith and Public Life | March 13, 2015 | Society

Friday Five: The Secret to a Healthy Society

On Fridays, we bring you the week’s best from around the web. This week’s round-up considers the cost of cultural and moral relativism in our present age, how suffering can bring life, and more. “The Cost of Relativism” by David Brooks, New York Times The health of...

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Gentrification: A Blessing or a Plague?

Tyler Castle | March 5, 2015 | Economics

Gentrification: A Blessing or a Plague?

For those of us living in any one of America’s large cities (New York, Washington, etc.), gentrification is likely a term we are familiar with. Over the last decade or so, these cities—many of which had become known for their high levels of poverty and crime—have...

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Tyler Castle is the director of AEI's Initiative on Faith & Public Life. He is a graduate of Westmont College and a former John Jay Institute Fellow.