This year I can’t ski with Ramona for I was just liberated from a cast. Now while she skis, I sit in the Saddle Peak Lodge with my unactivated season pass and my PowerBook. I read and write. Occasionally I run across a great proposal. Here’s a winner being developed by Prof. Richard Wolff of […]

Imagine a world without borders. Here, businesses are free to move people, products, and capital anywhere with minimal friction. Governmental interference has lessened and economic coordination improved. Critics of globalization and free trade would have us believe the result would be a giant race to the bottom. They expect firms to seek out localities with […]

Next month I’m addressing 70 Forest Service Snow Rangers. I’m to contrast private ski areas around Big Sky with Bridger Bowl. The result illuminates fundamental transformations throughout the Intermountain West. I’ll discuss important cultural, economic, and environmental changes and identify conflicts. Yellowstone Club The Yellowstone Club is the second most exclusive community in Montana; only […]

For the last two years I’ve had the pleasure of speaking to Bozeman High School’s philosophy classes. It’s an experience I thoroughly enjoy. This column is for them. What are we to make of the situation in which an Indian worker is paid 50 cents to assemble a shirt that sells for $25? Isn’t this […]