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.

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Four Easy Fixes for Corporate Taxation

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Everyone "knows" that the corporate income tax is a mess. Ask any company. They pay too much in corporate income tax, face rates h...

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Friday, May 3, 2013

My appearance on "The Big Picture" with Thom Hartmann

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Here is a link for my appearance on Thom Hartmann last night. One of the things brought up was a new study by the Institute for Policy S...

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Appearing tonight on "The Big Picture" with Thom Hartmann

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I will be talking austerity tonight with Thom Hartmann on his show, "The Big Picture." The program reaches 50 million homes in th...

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 ...

Friday, April 26, 2013

New Domain Name

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I have moved the site to www.middleclasspoliticaleconomist.com. No more "blogspot" in the address. This should not affect how you ...

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Unemployment Hits New Highs in Spain and France

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As if there were not already abundant proof of the failure of austerity in the eurozone, the BBC reports today that both Spain and France ...

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April Taxcast from Tax Justice Network

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This month's Taxcast from the Tax Justice Network highlights the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists' major dat...

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Kenneth Thomas: Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Missouri-St. Louis; Fellow, Good Jobs First. 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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