Middle Class Political Economist

I grew up in a middle-class family, the first to go to college full-time and the first to earn a Ph.D. The economic policies of the last 40 years have reduced the middle class's security, and this blog is a small contribution to reversing that.

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Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Basics: Is That a Good Economic Development Deal? A Checklist UPDATED

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In my last post , I discussed one of the most important sets of questions regarding any proposed economic development subsidy: How much does...

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Friday, November 22, 2013

Subsidy Insanity in Western Missouri

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I have written before about the gross waste of taxpayer monies on retail in the St. Louis region. According to the East-West Gateway Counc...

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Friday, September 20, 2013

New Jersey Subsidies Get Even Worse

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As if New Jersey's subsidies weren't bad enough already , Leigh McIlvaine at Good Jobs First reports that the state has just passed...

Sunday, September 8, 2013

New Jersey Subsidies More Out of Control than Ever Under Christie

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I have written before how state and local subsidies are more out of control than ever, and more recently how the number and size of megadea...

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Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Bad Economic Development Ideas from Conservatives

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Good Jobs First today released a new study debunking so-called “business climate indexes” and showing them to be cover for an ideological ...

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Kenneth Thomas: Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Missouri-St. Louis. Author of Competing for Capital: Europe and North America in a Global Era (Georgetown University Press, 2000) and Investment Incentives and the Global Competition for Capital (Palgrave, 2011). Available for research, consulting, and expert testimony. All opinions expressed are my own and not my employers'.

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