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, March 26, 2015

Wikileaks Releases Trans-Pacific Partnership Investment Chapter

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Via Daily Kos , we learn that Wikileaks has released the investment chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). This is a critical chap...
Thursday, March 12, 2015

More evidence low taxes didn't create the Celtic Tiger

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The Tax Justice Network has just inaugurated a new blog, Fools' Gold . It just came out with an excellent piece on taxes and Irish econo...
Saturday, February 28, 2015

EU goes to WTO over Boeing subsidies

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Just as I predicted , the European Union has filed a World Trade Organization complaint against Boeing's new round of subsidies from Wa...
Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Shocking incentive failure rate in North Carolina

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@sandymaxey points me to a new report from the North Carolina Justice Center that is making my head spin. Picking Losers shows that the st...
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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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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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