fall2021 Tag Posts Index

Week 15 Questions - Expertise

Expertise Image What is the danger of expert power? What is the best solution to preventing people with expertise having the most power? What is the ideal system

Week 15 Reflection - Expert Failure

Image Source The subject for this week in our Entrepreneurship and Value Creation in Society course is Dr. Roger Koppl's lecture on expert failure and expert power,

Week 14 Reflection - The Bigger Bubble

The Bigger Bubble by Jimmy Morrison gave great insight to the financial issues that have highlighted the United States in the 2000s and beyond. The U.S. government

Week 15 Response - Experts Misleading the Populus

"What is an example of an expert that abused their power of falsely presented data for their own benefit?" - Question presented by @dilucadomain Pharmaceutical

Week 15 Questions - Expertise and Expert Power

Image Source Why do you think we often put experts on a pedestal, giving them more power than other individuals in society? Who is an example of somebody that is

Week 14 Questions - The Bigger Bubble

Image Source Do you think we could be in the midst of a bubble right now with all time high stock markets, inflation, and looming economic uncertainty? What do you

Week 13 Response - Understanding the Difference between Political and Market Entreprenuers

"What are some current issues created by subsidies?" - @stonemasoner There are many issues with subsidies in the United States. First of all, subsidies

Week 13 Reflection - The Myth of the Robber Barrons

Image Source Folsom's Lecture Dr. Burt Folsom, professor of History at Hillsdale College and author of bestselling book The Myth of the Robber Barons, gave a lecture

Week 13 Response - Unrealized Effects of Political Entrepreneurship

Image Source What are some of the "unseen" effects that political entrepreneurs can have on the economy by effectively excluding other firms from the

Week 12 Response

This post is a response to "Who would the transition to Universal Basic Income in the U.S. help and who would it hurt?" posed by @Sarah.lindley This is

Week 11 Response - Healthcare

This post is a response to the question "Do you think our health care system works? What are the flaws and what are the pros? Look at different countries."

Week 11 Questions - Healthcare

Is universal healthcare a legitimate possibility? What country has the best healthcare system in the world, and what makes it the best? Americans are very polarized

Week 11 Response - The Ramifications of Universal Healthcare and the Case for Preventative Care

Image source Question from @lavender22: "Would universal healthcare negatively affect the quality of our healthcare? For example, longer wait times to receive

Week 10 Reflection - Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Society

A hot topic right now is that of the advancement of technology, and what that means for us as a society. There are fears that machines will come in and change every

Week 10 Questions - Artificial Intelligence

Is artificial intelligence something we as a society should fear? What are the advantages and disadvantages of artificial intelligence? With the development of

Week 09 Reflection - POVERTY INC.

Image Source Overview of Poverty Inc The 2016 documentary Poverty Inc opened my eyes quite a bit to the reality of poverty around the world. Until viewing the film,

Week 09 Questions - Addressing Extreme Poverty

How does charity to those living in poverty benefit them in both the short run and the long run? Do organizations that seek to eradicate poverty actually make meaningful

Week 09 Response - Eliminating Extreme Poverty

Image Source Question from @makenziejones: "In your opinion, is it possible to completely eradicate extreme poverty? Why or why not?" Relative vs Extreme

Week 09 Questions - Addressing Extreme Poverty

Image Source Is a world without poverty possible? If so how does society take action to move in that direction? When thinking of extreme poverty, visions of homelessness

Week 08 - Reflection on Federalism

[image source: Reflection Paper Ok, so first, all of this is based on the constitution and the federalist papers and the founding fathers. This is back when we were