PorcFest Fellowships Now Available!

PorcFest at Night

High school and college students with a verifiable school e-mail address may now apply for E3NE PorcFest Fellowships offering a free ticket to the 2017 Porcupine Freedom Festival in Lancaster, N.H., June 21-25, 2017. PorcFest is an educational event held at Roger’s Campground and Motel and featuring speakers on topics from economics, philosophy, and public policy to how-tos on schooling, […]

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Ethics & Economics Challenge Scholarship Winners Announced!

This year’s Ethics and Economics Challenge speech competition at Merrimack Valley High School, made possible by Credit Adjustments, Inc., took place on Friday evening, June 3. The students gave a series of excellent presentations, which were judged by Janine Casavant, Gardner Goldsmith, and Jason Sorens. In the end, the winners were: Braden S., for “Why College Vouchers Could Reduce Costs” […]

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“Thanksgiving, Ethics, and Economics” or “Why The Lesson of Plymouth Plantation Lasts Longer Than One Day in November”

On December 9, 2015, as students reconvened with E3NE following their Thanksgiving break, we decided to reflect on history, and how it provides lessons in ethics and economics. But first we needed to define a few terms, and keep our eyes peeled for a few others that would be important for the future and intellectual growth. I asked the students […]

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Gold, Money, and the Great Depression

Depression Bread Line

What caused the Great Depression? There’s no shortage of popular theories. Some say it was an inevitable consequence of capitalism. Others claim it was the big stock market crash of October 1929 that started it. Yet another hypothesis says that the 1930 Smoot-Hawley Tariff, highest in U.S. history, turned a recession into a depression. All these explanations are false. Economists […]

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