The economist lives!

hey friends!
There was a nice post, almost ready to be posted, and the durn laptop froze up. So here's something maybe a little different.
From Thanksgiving to the end of the semester I was extremely busy. Two weeks of writing on my two big papers for my professors, one week of intense studying for final exams. All the work paid off though. My exams went well. Both papers were very well received. A third paper will be published January 4th on the Mackinac Center for Public Policy website. All three of these papers focus on the same topic, a topic that has become an area of great interest to me and that I hope will have potential for the future - political possibilities. More particularly, the papers focus on developing a theory of a window of political possibilities and how that window can be shifted to result in policy applications.

Well, I'm hanging out with Larry Reed, the president of the Mackinac Center, in Naples, Florida - so I'm going to go for now.

Pearl Harbor Day!

Lest we forget either the tremendous sacrifices and triumphs of World War Two or the reality that we are at war even now - no, I'm not talking about Iraq - with an enemy that is more eager to destroy our way of life than the Japanese ever were.


One paper down, major homework getting done, then studying for finals and modifying the paper.