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.

Thursday, August 21, 2014

Understanding Piketty, part 3

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Part 3 of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century is the longest section of the book (230 pages out of 577), providing his...
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Sunday, August 17, 2014

Understanding Piketty, part 2

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In my last post , I gave an introduction to the massive data work underlying Capital in the Twenty-First Century , as well as two clear resu...
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Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Understanding Piketty, part 1

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Thomas Piketty's ( CV ) Capital in the Twenty-First Century is the most important book on economics published in this century. The book...
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Friday, August 8, 2014

Tesla wants $500 million for its Gigafactory

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Leigh McIlvaine (@Leigh M.) of Good Jobs First alerted me to this article on what Tesla Motors wants in incentives to land its $5 billion G...
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Monday, August 4, 2014

Illinois' next governor may make Romney look like a saint UPDATED

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Does the name Bruce Rauner ring a bell? No, me neither. It turns out he's the Republican nominee for governor in Illinois, which under n...
Thursday, July 31, 2014

Jon Stewart nails corporate tax inversions

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Last night Jon Stewart (h/t BruinKid ) went after tax inversion with style, showing up Republican hypocrisy on welfare programs vs. "c...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Medicare report shows Obamacare is bending the cost curve

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The 2014 Medicare Trustees Report has just been released, and it shows that the program is on noticeably sounder financial footing than it ...
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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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