Moral foundations, economic principles, & critical thinking
Lindsay K. gave a great speech on NSA surveillance reform at the most recent Ethics & Economics Challenge (EEC) speech competition. Here it is: Lindsay from Ethics and Economics Education on Vimeo. Lindsay was an outstanding contributor to the weekly Socratic discussions that constitute the core of the EEC program. She says about EEC: “This class is helpful in my […]
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For my last discussion with the Merrimack Valley H.S. Ethics & Economics Challenge students, I brought up the issue of borders. We started our discussion with a little bit of improv theatre. I played a foreigner trying to get into the United States without documentation. Students volunteered to play a border guard trying to keep me out. Between us lay […]
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Ethics & Economics Challenge will be wrapping up soon at Merrimack Valley High School. At the end of the class, each student will give a speech on a social or public policy. Their audience will include a team of judges who will rate the speeches in order to choose the first recipients of E3NE’s college scholarships. Many high school students have never delivered a formal speech, […]
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How can one group of human beings come to enjoy a right to enforce its authoritative commands on other human beings? In other words, how does government come to enjoy a right to rule, and how do citizens come to incur a duty to obey? An example may help motivate the question. Suppose some of your neighbors start a “neighborhood […]
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