☑️ 추천대상 :  정책에 관심있어 하는 학생에게 추천합니다. 

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이 프로그램은 캐나다의 유명한 Think Tank에서 운영하는 대회로, 공공정책과 시장의 역할에 대해 학생들의 생각과 아이디어를 뽐낼 수 있는 기회입니다.  총 CAD $ 9,000의 상금이 준비되어 있으며,  고등학생에게만 CAD $ 3,000를 수상합니다. 최종 선정된 에세이는 Fraser Institute 저널에 게재되는 기회가 주어집니다.

2023 주제: What would our Essential Scholars say about the world today?

Unprecedented is a word that has been used repeatedly to describe all aspects of the last two years: global pandemic, centralized lockdowns, overwhelmed health care facilities, high inflation, revolutionized AI, war in Ukraine, etc. Governments often respond to remarkable moments in history by creating policies they feel would help address the situation. What insight can our Essential Scholars series offer the current situations and events? Relying on the ideas of one of our Essential Scholars, construct an essay that describes a scholar’s response, explanation, or rebuttal to a current event. You can use a scholar’s economic theory to examine unprecedented situations, propose potential policies that a scholar would have put forward, or suggest how certain existing policies would have been adapted by a particular Essential Scholar.

Example Questions:

• What would Milton Friedman argue should be a government’s response to inflation?
• In a post-COVID world, what would Jane Jacobs say about the state of our cities?
• How does James Buchanan’s thoughts on public choice theory apply to the economic sanctions imposed on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine?
• How can Joseph Schumpeter’s concept of creative destruction help us understand the rise and fall of businesses?
• What would one of the Essential Scholars say about Canada’s current housing and rent situation?