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Exodus and the American Idea of Freedom– by Dr. Cecil Bohanon and Dr. John Horowitz
- History
May 4, 2026 by christianhartselle
The Book of Exodus tells the story of how God delivered the Israelites from Egyptian servitude and established His covenant with them on Mount Sinai. The Exodus story was central to the founding of the United States. The Puritan settlers viewed their departure from England as a flight from oppression and a journey to a promised land. During the […]

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Diversify or Bust– by Dr. Cecil Bohanon and Dr. John Horowitz
- Investment
May 4, 2026 by christianhartselle
A twenty-something friend of ours wants to set up a small fund for a newborn niece. He asked us what he should invest in. We offer the following millennial story. Two cousins, Jay and Zeke, each inherited $10,000 from their grandpa. On January 2, 2001, the first business day of the new millennium, they went to a stockbroker. Grandpa told both that common stocks were the best long-term investment, but don’t […]

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Is College Worth It? Data on Degrees and Earnings– by Dr. Cecil Bohanon and Dr. John Horowitz
- Education
May 4, 2026 by christianhartselle
What should a high school graduate do? People have been told the surest and best path to middle-class comfort is the college degree. We have spent our careers in higher education, but are also economists who look at the data. A story that has been circulating for the past few years is that college is not what it used to be. The percentage of Indiana high […]

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Game Theory in Everyday Decisions– by Dr. Cecil Bohanon and Dr. John Horowitz
- Microeconomics
May 4, 2026 by christianhartselle
A while back, we spoke to one of our most successful economics alums who is now a lawyer. We asked him, “Which topic that you learned as an economics major is most useful to you?” He mentioned game theory because it helped him to interact more productively with others. Game theory models human interaction as a game. It identifies the players, their options, the incentives they face, and the likely outcomes of their […]

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Oil Shocks and Chokepoints: Lessons from Hormuz– by Dr. Cecil Bohanon and Dr. John Horowitz
- Energy and Climate
May 4, 2026 by christianhartselle
Bohanon remembers an evening flight into the United Arab Emirates a decade ago. Looking out his window, he saw the outline of a body of water bordered by land on both sides. The distance between the land narrowed in the middle of the view. On the water, dozens of individual bright lights moved slowly, keeping approximately even distance from one another and clustered […]

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Skills vs. Judgment: The Case for Classical Education– by Dr. Cecil Bohanon and Dr. John Horowitz
- Education
May 4, 2026 by christianhartselle
Many states are promoting degree programs that have historically led to high‑paying jobs after college and dropping or reducing programs that don’t. Families want a return on their tuition investment, and employers need talent, but there is an unintended consequence. Focusing on technical training often harms classical education. Classical education is built around ancient and modern world history, philosophy, and rhetoric. It examines how earlier societies […]

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Is Milton Friedman Still Running the Show?– by Dr. Cecil Bohanon and Dr. John Horowitz
- Macroeconomics
May 4, 2026 by christianhartselle
Joe Biden famously said in an April 2020 interview that, if elected President, “Milton Friedman isn’t running the show anymore.” Friedman, a world-class economist, Nobel Prize winner, and free-market advocate, passed away in 2006, years before Biden ran for or assumed the office. Biden, of course, was referring not to the man Friedman, but to the policies Friedman espoused. Interestingly, as an undergraduate student at Stanford University, Donald Trump’s nominee for Federal Reserve Chairman, […]

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Olympic Economics: Costs, Incentives, and the Pursuit of Gold– by Dr. Cecil Bohanon and Dr. John Horowitz
- Macroeconomics
May 4, 2026 by christianhartselle
During the Milan–Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, Team USA finished second to Norway, earning 12 gold medals and 33 total medals. However, the Games offer more than athletic drama; they teach valuable economic lessons. Scarcity and Tradeoffs. Every euro spent on the Olympics is a euro not spent elsewhere. The Milan–Cortina organizing committee reported an operating budget of about €1.7 billion (≈ $1.9B), […]

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Federal Authority and Local Resistance– by Dr. Cecil Bohanon and Dr. John Horowitz
- Government
May 4, 2026 by christianhartselle
The United States of America is fortunate to have one of the largest integrated markets in the world. Bohanon recalls that some 40 years ago, his Rotary hosts in Belgium remarked, “American producers can sell from Maine to California; we have no such equivalent in Belgium.” Indeed, since that time, Western Europe has attempted to replicate our […]

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The Economics of Negligence: Understanding the Hand Formula– by Dr. Cecil Bohanon and Dr. John Horowitz
- Microeconomics
May 4, 2026 by christianhartselle
Nearly 80 years ago, Judge Learned Hand issued his famous decision in U.S. v. Carroll Towing Co. While teaching a Law and Economics class recently, a student thought I (Horowitz) was joking when I mentioned “Judge Learned Hand.” I brought up his biography, and to the class’s amusement, he was, in fact, a real person with a remarkably appropriate name. Judge […]

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