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.

Sunday, October 25, 2015

New Study Finds State Subsidies Go Overwhelmingly to Large Companies

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Good Jobs First has just issued a new report analyzing state investment incentive programs open to small and large businesses alike. With t...
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Thursday, October 22, 2015

EU slams Starbucks and Fiat advance tax rulings as state aid; Is Apple next?

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The European Commission decided two of its major tax subsidy cases on Wednesday, October 21, and the rulings could not have been worse for S...
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Friday, October 2, 2015

Time for a new incentives estimate!

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It's been over four years since I last published an estimate of U.S. state and local government subsidies in Investment Incentives and ...
Thursday, September 3, 2015

Obamacare hasn't killed full-time jobs, either

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When we last looked at Obamacare as an alleged "job-killer," Matt Yglesias had just pointed out that 2014, the first full year o...
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Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Basics: Tax Increment Financing Subsidies

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Last week I made a presentation to the Colorado Assessors Association on tax increment financing (TIF) subsidies. With the organization...
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Saturday, August 15, 2015

Final subsidy accounting rules published!

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On Friday, the Government Accounting Standards Board (GASB) published the final version of its new rules requiring governments to make repo...
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Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Basics: Is trade zero-sum between workers in different countries?

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Vox.com had a long, interesting interview with Senator Bernie Sanders covering a large number of political and economic issues. In this pos...
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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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