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, April 15, 2015

Oh, look! The uninsured rate fell again!

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As any conservative can tell you, Obamacare is a job-killing "train wreck." Not only is it a job killer, there is no way that it ...
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Saturday, April 11, 2015

Good Jobs First reveals top federal subsidy recipients: Subsidy Tracker 3.0

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Slow to be getting to this, but I have to come back to such a major development. Good Jobs First, a national non-profit best known for its w...
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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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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