The Costs of Children

08/18/2003 Mises Wire Mises.org

Leave No Parent Behind (J. Surowiecki, New Yorker): “In the past two decades or so, the cost of having children has risen much faster than the cost of being childless. Conventional wisdom aside, this has little to do with spoiled kids, acquisitive parents, or PlayStation 2. Instead, it’s the result of two things: housing and education.”
The Constitutional Right of Secession in Political Theory and History -- Working paper by Andei Kreptul (Seattle University School of Law)
Stiglitz on Globalization -- Working paper by D.W. MacKenzie (Ramapo College)

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