Lanny on Learning

Musings from Lanny Arvan on learning -
pedagogy, the economics of, technical issues, tie-ins with other stuff, the entire grab bag.

Friday, December 12, 2025

Reframing the Debate about ACA

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As in my recent posts, I want to focus on members of the "professional class," which I define as being in a household with income ...
Monday, November 17, 2025

Executive Summary

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My previous post, Might Members of the Professional Class Embrace Democratic Socialism? , reads more like a full White Paper than a blog pos...
Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Might Members of the Professional Class Embrace Democratic Socialism?

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This post has two different sources that served as stimuli.  One of those is the Opinion piece in the New York Times from a few days ago, Ho...
Saturday, October 18, 2025

An Analog Mind in a Digital World

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I spend an inordinate amount of time these days doing word puzzles.  As the solutions can be computer generated, one might wonder why the pu...
Friday, October 10, 2025

If I Were Running the Yankees

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Matty Alou was once a Yankee too.  I watched all of the Yankee games in the Playoffs, after not watching them much at all during the regular...
Sunday, September 21, 2025

The Going Back In Time Fantasy

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Trying to relive one's life over again, avoiding the evident mistakes, hopeful in that good fortune will shine on this alternative envis...
Friday, August 08, 2025

Developing a Personal Philosophy that Resonates Within

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Recently, I finished reading Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.  (I read the Kindle version , which costs $0.99.  There is a free version at Googl...
Thursday, July 17, 2025

Shrinking (Without The Violet)

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Yesterday I watched David and Lisa on YouTube.  The movie is from 1962 and is done in black and white, mainly without background music and ...
Wednesday, July 09, 2025

Flying Under The Radar Politics

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While I mean this to be a stand-alone post, in some sense it can be taken as a sequel to my post from Saturday.  It was motivated by asking ...
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Lanny retired from the University of Illinois in August 2010. Before that he was an Associate Professor of Economics and Associate Dean for eLearning in the College of Business. (Department of Economics Lanny Arvan page - archive) Lanny was also quite active in the Higher Education community for Information Technology. (Educause Lanny Arvan page) Since retirement, Lanny has taught one course per year offered in the fall on The Economics of Organizations and he has mentored a handful of students each year as well. He did that until Covid. He hasn't taught since. Lanny maintains a blog called Lanny On Learning with a focus on undergraduate education, but there are also posts on economics, national politics, books he's read, movies he's seen, and anything else that catches his fancy.
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