Consider a conversation that Gary Becker, the brilliant and prolific Chicago economist who won a Nobel Prize 10 years ago, had with his mother: “I remember I went to my mother (and) said, ‘Mom, I want to be a professor.’…
Fishing for common economic ground
I don’t fish, so I personally won’t be affected by recent judicial decisions that limit state conservation officers’ ability to enter fish houses or to stop boats to determine if anglers are obeying limit laws. Nor am I a lawyer,…
Successful economies need cooperation and competition
My son and I were just returning to civilization after six days in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. I pulled up to the stop sign where the Sawbill Trail runs into the North Shore Drive at Tofte and looked to…
Society’s needs can be a messy process
“Social Engineering Ahead” is the warning on a set of billboards sponsored by the Taxpayers League of Minnesota. The signs, which include graphics of a tangle of train tracks and roads, reportedly are intended to warn people that initiatives such…