Stoa Lincoln-Douglas Debate: Economic Welfare (AFF)

This affirmative case is a straightforward, contention-centric, policy-heavy case designed to uphold the resolution by demonstrating that economic stability is simply the better economic policy. This is a value resolution, but it’s an economic value resolution, and this case is committed to proving value by proving economic superiority.

The value of economic welfare serves to orient the round towards overall economic success. It’s an easy value to defend, because the ultimate goal of both economic growth and economic stability is to achieve a healthy and thriving economy. The challenging aspect of this value is the same as the challenge of the resolution: marshalling enough data, economic knowledge, expert advocacy, and logic to convince the judge that your policy of economic stability is the best way to achieve economic welfare, and thus is the best economic policy. To help you with that task, this case is full of evidence and applications that will help you defend economic stability as the most viable policy in this resolution.