Showing posts with label Matt Yglesias. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Matt Yglesias. Show all posts
Thursday, October 26, 2017

Tax Policy

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This is Joseph I am mostly out for a few weeks, but this is a very interesting piece : Three or four decades later, scholars are able to...
Friday, October 9, 2015

The welfare state

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This is Joseph Matt Yglesias talks about the issues regarding opposition to the welfare state : This is why thoughtful opponents of the ...
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Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Intellectual Property

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We have not talked about copyright for a while, but this is an evergreen point: More recent characters never enter the public domain beca...
Wednesday, September 4, 2013

This is a really big deal

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From Yglesias Most low-income Americans aren’t poor at all by global standards, so evidence from successful anti-poverty programs in the ...
Monday, August 12, 2013

Infrastructure that requires no new tech

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Matthew Yglesias on low tech solutions : It's no hyperloop, but here's one way we could make the trip from New York to Washingto...
Monday, July 22, 2013

Urban Sprawl

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Mark Thoma's site has a link to Paul Krugman's discussion of the association between sprawl and low social mobility .  It appears ...
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Wednesday, May 1, 2013

The 401(k) world

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There has been some real tough reflection on tax expenditures recently.  I have always seen 401(k) and IRA savings vehicles as being a bette...
Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Misleading graphics

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This infographic has been coming under criticism from the usual suspects .  The group that got hit the worst was the married couple with ...
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Hat tip to Yglesias

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Mark and I have been hard on Matt Yglesias lately.  But this post was a really clever idea.  He took Kevin Drum's idea that lead was re...
Saturday, January 12, 2013

Matt Yglesias -- Defending the indefensible

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[I've been off line most of the week so instead of participating in the discussion on the Students First report card , I am, with apolog...
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