This summer, I've been working part-time at a Home Depot in a small city plotted in the vast prairie wastes of rural Oklahoma. I've been working this job for over a year, and I enjoy the work. Even if it sometimes requires that I wake up ungodly early in the morning, it's flexible, satisfying, and it pays damn well: $16 an hour at an entry-level retail position. The one thing that I lament about my job is the always-on in-store radio, so one can imagine my jubilation when, last month, I walked into the store at 4:57 AM a few weeks ago and heard nothing. The radio had gone dead silent. Something went bust in the store's intercom, and the whole system went down. After working for a few days in zen-like silence, I began listening to podcasts as I worked, and wishing to avoid listening to the contentious discussions of political podcasts in a public setting, I eventually opted to listen to podcasts about corporate governance. As a public administration major by passion rather than by ambi…
Private Sector Civics
We teach students the basics of government. Why not the basics of the market?
