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.

Monday, April 18, 2016

Breakthrough in Kansas-Missouri Border War

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Via @goodjobsfirst, we learned Friday that Kansas Governor Sam Brownback had made a major response to Missouri's proposed jobs truce in...
Monday, April 4, 2016

It's official - Icelandic bankers have been jailed

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If you've been following this blog over the last few years, you know that Iceland took the dramatic step of prosecuting top officers at...
Tuesday, February 2, 2016

New OECD tax agreement improves transparency -- but the US doesn't sign and the US press won't tell you UPDATED

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Last week 31 countries signed a new Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) agreement providing for country-by-country...
Friday, January 15, 2016

Champion Tax Avoider GE Gets Subsidized Relocation to Boston

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On Wednesday, General Electric announced that it was going to relocate its headquarters from Fairfield, Connecticut, to Boston beginning in...
Friday, January 1, 2016

Ireland still isn't back

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Ireland remains, in some circles, a poster child for austerity's success: It paid off its bailout loan early! It regained its 2007 Gros...
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Thursday, December 17, 2015

The new era for subsidy disclosure begins

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Yesterday, December 15, was the first day the new Government Accounting Standards Board (GASB) subsidy reporting rules came into effect. Fr...
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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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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