Archive for May, 2006
Econ-Atrocity: Should water assets and services be privatized or publicly managed?
Should water assets and services be privatized or publicly managed?By Amit Basole, CPE Staff EconomistAn Econ-Atrocity, brought to you by the Center for Popular Economics.April 20, 2006 The “water crisis”The supply of freshwater is only 2.5% of the world’s total water content. Not counting the part that is permanently ice and snow, about 1% remains ...Read more.
Econamici: Tax Cuts for the Rich Hurt the Economy
Congress just donated another $70 billion in investment tax cuts to rich taxpayers. Last month, David Cay Johnston of the New York Times summed up the debate: (Big Gain for Rich Seen in Tax Cuts for Investments) “Stephen J. Entin, president of the Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation, a Washington organization, and ...Read more.
Connecticut commentator considers land tax
In Repopulating New Orleans (D&S, Mar/Apr 2006) , Mason Gaffney set San Francisco’s rebuilding after its 1907 earthquake and fire as a model for present-day New Orleans: How did a city with so few assets raise funds to repair its broken infrastructure and rise from its ashes? It had only the local property tax, and ...Read more.
WHAT'S HAPPENING IN NEW ORLEANS? COMMON GROUND COLLECTIVE at UMASS BOSTON
A friend of mine who is a student at UMass passed this announcement on to me. When: Thursday, May 11 from noon to 2:00 p.m. Where: UMass Boston Wheatley Hall Student Lounge, Room 0148, 4th Floor Please stop by for as little or as much time as you can! Adjunct Dispute Resolution Professor Phil Woodbury, ...Read more.
A dark night, a mysterious dame, and a gumshoe looking for clues in the case of the vanishing wages
From Jared Bernstein’s May 7 op ed in the LA Times. “OK, gorgeous. Drop the ‘two Americas’ line and give it to me straight. You know as well as I do where the growth is going. What’s your game?” She nibbled her lip and looked up at me real sweet. “I suppose if I told ...Read more.
The Wealth of Nations, Wolf on Jacobs, Krugman on Warsh
By Polly Cleveland Martin Wolf of the Financial Times, calls Jane Jacobs, who died last week, “a self-educated intellectual of astonishing originality.” He devotes most of his article, “National wealth on city life’s coat tails” http://news.ft.com/cms/s/352033dc-da02-11da-b7de-0000779e2340.html to a review of one of his and my favorite books, Jacob’s 1984 Cities and the Wealth of Nations ...Read more.
Jane Jacobs and John Kenneth Galbraith
Last week was a grim one for my apartment’s non-fiction shelves—the two authors whose complete works, each volume thumb-worn, graced them, died: on Tuesday, Jane Jacobs, at 87, and on Sunday, John Kenneth Galbraith, at 97. Jacobs, in contrast to the urban planners of the 1950s—in contrast to her nemesis Robert Moses—championed an intensely human ...Read more.
May Day: The Workers’ Day!
An “Econ-Atrocity” from the Center for Popular EconomicsBy Gerald Friedman, CPE Staff EconomistMay 1, 2006 For over a century May Day has been celebrated throughout Europe, Asia, and Latin America, as a day of labor celebration marked with strikes and with parades flying red flags and waving revolutionary banners. In Europe, May Day has been ...Read more.
