Hurricane relief and recovery webinar is free to attend at SBDC office

Hurricane Michael
 

Troy University’s Small Business Development Center and the Sorrell College of Business is hosting free attendance to a webinar aimed at businesses wishing to get active in hurricane relief and recovery activities.

The webinar begins at noon on Thursday, May 16 at the SBDC offices in the “IDEA Bank” building (formerly Regions Bank), located at…

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Abbeville students win scholarships at Youth Business Summit

Abbeville students present their business plan at the 2019 Youth Business Summit at the Dothan Campus.

Abbeville students present their business plan at the 2019 Youth Business Summit at the Dothan Campus.

More than 200 Wiregrass high school students participated Thursday in the third annual Troy University Youth Business Summit in Dothan, and two walked away with college scholarships.

Students from 13 schools attended workshops throughout the day, with some participating in competitions focused on different aspects of business.

Abbeville High School won the “Shark Tank”-style Business…

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International Trade Show give business students a chance to be ‘GEEKS’

Sorrell College of Business seniors pitch their nation during the annual International Trade Show. (TROY photo/Joey Meredith)

Sorrell College of Business seniors pitch their nation during the annual International Trade Show. (TROY photo/Joey Meredith)

For Sorrell College of Business global business seniors, the college’s International Trade Show is a chance to learn about different cultures and business environments, and, helps makes them “GEEKS.”

For the show, the seniors in Dr. Clint Reylea’s Managing in a Global Business Environment class are broken into teams of three to five at random,…

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Politics and the Economics of the Carbon Tax

 Economists should not let the allure of an optimal tax create an impression that carbon taxation will benefit the economy. (photo/Dori)

Economists should not let the allure of an optimal tax create an impression that carbon taxation will benefit the economy. (photo/Dori)

A carbon tax involves some good economics and is probably the best way to address global warming. And yet I think that adopting the tax represents bad policy. My reservations involve the politics of policy implementation as examined by Nobel prize-winning economist James Buchanan.

Before getting to my concerns, let’s consider two other arguments against…

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