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, October 8, 2014

New Government Accounting Standards to Require Subsidy Disclosure

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In a move with potentially enormous implications, Good Jobs First reports that the Government Accounting Standards Board (GASB) will soon i...

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Thursday, October 2, 2014

Boeing moving 2000 jobs from Washington state

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Via @BlogWood, I learned that Boeing is going to move 2000 skilled jobs away from Washington state, despite just receiving $8.7 billion (wi...

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Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Apple set to lose billions in EU state aid case

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The Financial Times writes today that the European Commission has decided to open a formal investigation into whether Apple received illega...

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Thursday, September 25, 2014

Iceland Bankers Convicted and Unemployment is Down

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Remember Iceland? During the high-flying early 2000s, its three main banks went berserk, paying high interest rates to international investo...

Saturday, September 20, 2014

Irish Austerity Exodus Lingers On

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August brings us the annual Irish immigration data, so it's time to look at what has happened in their statistical reporting "year...

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Tesla Deal Even Worse Than First Thought

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Via an email from Greg LeRoy of Good Jobs First , we learn that the Tesla deal, as enacted by the Nevada Legislature , is even worse than an...

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Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Understanding Piketty, part 5 (conclusion)

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Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century is the first book to make a data-driven examination of economic inequality. Based ...

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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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