Articles by Roger McCain

I was visiting an excellent liberal arts college in a scenic location and my host, while showing me the athletic facilities, said, “We price it…

In my undergraduate game theory course, I have a unit on game theory applied to voting. The main topic is strategic voting — that is,…

I took a vacation trip to scenic Northeast Ohio last summer. No, really! There are some nice places around Cleveland! One is Cuyahoga Valley National…

The anarchist poet Herbert Read said that English is a particularly flexible language because it has borrowed so extensively from other languages. His example was…

Scotland has voted to remain part of Great Britain. That’s good, in my opinion. Yes, I have some Scottish heritage — but my ancestors were…

Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” has been much discussed and criticized in the last few months. Piketty argues that increasing inequality of wealth…

French economist Thomas Piketty’s recent book, “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” has been more discussed than any work in economics since those of John Kenneth…

I should begin by saying that I am not opposed to public provision of health care — quite the contrary. My wife and I had…

My colleagues Anne Duchene and Marco Airaudo were recently interviewed about the surging demand for wine on the part of the rising middle class in…

Because Mitt Romney pioneered health care reform and the Obama administration supported the federal legislation that established it, maybe we should call it Robamacare. It’s…