James A. Montanye
James A. Montanye
James A. Montayne is a retired consulting economist in Falls Church, Virginia.
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{content}Protecting Unalienable Rights
A leaked Supreme Court draft opinion denying the constitutional legitimacy of the Court’s 1973 Roe...
An Empirical Defense of Congressional Filibusters and Super-Majority Voting Rules
Deliberative democracy is a noble ideal that...
Roe v. Wade Reconsidered
This piece is the pro argument in our two-post debate on Roe v. Wade and Abortion. You can find...
Bobby Kennedy, Joe Biden, and the Fallacy of Shaw’s Serpent
The progressive U.S. Senator and presidential aspirant Robert...
Progressivism’s Life Cycles
Political and social experiments come and go like the seasons. Grand ideas for perfecting humanity...
No-Ho-Ho: The Economics of Holiday Gift Giving
With holiday gift shopping in season and the COVID-19 pandemic rampant, consider...
Free Will: Getting the Economics Right
The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein [Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 1921; Philosophical...
Where There’s a Will There’s a Won’t: A COVID-Related Tale of Bureaucracy
A tax-funded county library system, upon which I rely...
Will the Push for Social Equality Undermine Social Harmony?
Politicians, political theorists, economists, and sundry social...
Altruism, Generosity, and Selfishness in the Age of Bernie
Senator, and presidential hopeful, Bernie Sanders’ enticing blend...
