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.

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

America's Most Wanted: Boeing

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Boeing is America's Most Wanted Corporation in two senses. First, now that the Machinists' union in Washington state has refused the...
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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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November Tax-Cast Highlights Fiscal Secrecy Index and Retrospective on President John F. Kennedy

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This month's Taxcast from the Tax Justice Network highlights the results of the newest edition of the Financial Secrecy Index as well as...
Thursday, November 14, 2013

Columbia U. Conference Shows Incentives Pervasive but Controls Work

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Day one of the Columbia International Investment Conference in New York has concluded, and the takeaways are very clear. The topic is invest...
Monday, November 4, 2013

Ted Cruz's Tax Haven Past

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A version of this post was previously published at US News and World Report's "Economic Intelligence" blog: http://www.usnews....
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Friday, October 25, 2013

Columbia U. Conference on Investment Incentives

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On November 13 and 14, the 8th Annual Columbia International Investment Conference will be held in New York City. Sponsored by the Vale Col...
Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Irish Austerity Exodus Continues

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The Eurozone experiment in austerity continues to fail as the peripheral countries endure ongoing cuts. Following up on my post of August 15...
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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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