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.

Friday, February 13, 2015

Secretive TPP threatens health, regulation, and democracy

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I'm pleased today to have a guest post from Professor Susan K. Sell, one of the leading authorities on the incorporation of intellectual...

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Third Way trade agreements study leaves out a lot

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Third Way (h/t TPM), a Democratic pro-trade think tank, has released a new study , "Are Modern Trade Deals Working?" It examines t...

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

U.S. 76, EU 6 UPDATED

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No, it's not a sports score. It's the number of $100 million incentive packages offered in each place beginning in 2010. This is bas...

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Tuesday, January 27, 2015

What is Noah thinking? Part 2

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Noah Smith has replied to my recent post criticizing his use of median household income to measure middle class living standards. He rais...

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Monday, January 26, 2015

Greece may be first head-on challenge to Eurozone austerity

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Yesterday Greece elected a new anti-austerity party, Syriza, to lead its next government. New prime minister Alexis Tsipras has pledged to ...

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Tuesday, January 20, 2015

What is Noah thinking?

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Noah Smith put up a post Sunday purporting to show that things aren't so bad for the middle class. Then he immediately shows us a chart...

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Thursday, January 15, 2015

My GASB Comments

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Well, I should have taken my own advice and not waited until the last minute to submit my own comments on the proposed standards for govern...

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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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