Ethics and Economics Education
Moral foundations, economic principles, & critical thinking
We are very pleased to announce the winners of the 2019 Ethics and Economics Challenge speech competitions at The Founders Academy and Merrimack Valley High School! At Founders, first place went to Nicole Wulf for her speech on the unintended consequences of the TSA. She won $500. You can see her winning speech here. The second place winner was Connor […]
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We ask students to write response paragraphs after our weekly discussions. Here are some selections from those comments on the readings for this year, organized by thinker. The text has not been changed in any way from the originals except for formatting. On Frederic Bastiat’s “Parable of the Broken Window” “In this week’s discussion we built upon the concept of […]
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Last month, Ethics & Economics Challenge started again at The Founders Academy in Manchester, N.H. and Merrimack Valley H.S. in Penacook, N.H. We are trying out an entirely new format this year. Students will focus on reading three works of major historical or contemporary importance in the fields of economics and moral philosophy, and we discuss a chapter or two […]
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2017-18 was the first academic year in which E3NE ran Ethics and Economics Challenge at The Founders Academy, where our discussion leader, Gardner Goldsmith, also teaches a regular class. Eight students attended the course. In the speech competition, the judges — Gardner Goldsmith, Patty Humphrey, and Jason Sorens — decided to award two first-place, $500 scholarships and one second-place, $250 […]
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