Reversed Psychology: Tax Cuts and Work
by Bruce Webb In comments to his last post A Response to Megan McArdle, Again Cactus put the following up as a summary of the Economic Right’s approach to tax cuts:1. tax cuts mean people are...
View ArticleThe Pseudo-Psychology of Psupply Pside Economics
by Bruce Webb In my view you can boil Supply Side down to a simple aphorism: “If you tax something, people will use less of it”. And all things being equal and depending on how you define ‘something’...
View ArticleSupply-side Economics: Tea Party Style
Our colleague PGL offers this take at Econospeak on the new deal this week: Supply-side Economics: Tea Party Style Andrew Leonard covers the opposition to the Obama-McConnell tax deal coming from Tea...
View ArticleNick and Joe are doing their best to beat back Milton Friedman et al
Nick Hanauer, Joseph Sitglitz videos. This is the latest presentation Nick Hanauer has made regarding the upside downness of our economy and the backward, selfish thinking that has gotten us here. In...
View ArticleRepublican Policy Response to Increasing Income Inequality
“Labor Share is decreasing so lets cut tax on capital to zero”. That is it. Literally. When you parse out Paul Ryan’s ‘Path to Prosperity’ or the net effects of Rubio’s tax plan that is what...
View ArticleThe Bizarre and Manipulative Crusade by Centrist NYT Columnists to Persuade...
All the experts tell us not to pay too much attention to polls for another week or two. Still, it does look as if Hillary Clinton got a big bounce from her convention, swamping her opponent’s bounce a...
View ArticleReversed Psychology: Tax Cuts and Work
by Bruce Webb In comments to his last post A Response to Megan McArdle, Again Cactus put the following up as a summary of the Economic Right’s approach to tax cuts:1. tax cuts mean people are...
View ArticleThe Pseudo-Psychology of Psupply Pside Economics
by Bruce Webb In my view you can boil Supply Side down to a simple aphorism: “If you tax something, people will use less of it”. And all things being equal and depending on how you define ‘something’...
View ArticleSupply-side Economics: Tea Party Style
Our colleague PGL offers this take at Econospeak on the new deal this week: Supply-side Economics: Tea Party Style Andrew Leonard covers the opposition to the Obama-McConnell tax deal coming from Tea...
View ArticleNick and Joe are doing their best to beat back Milton Friedman et al
Nick Hanauer, Joseph Sitglitz videos. This is the latest presentation Nick Hanauer has made regarding the upside downness of our economy and the backward, selfish thinking that has gotten us here. In...
View ArticleRepublican Policy Response to Increasing Income Inequality
“Labor Share is decreasing so lets cut tax on capital to zero”. That is it. Literally. When you parse out Paul Ryan’s ‘Path to Prosperity’ or the net effects of Rubio’s tax plan that is what...
View ArticleThe Bizarre and Manipulative Crusade by Centrist NYT Columnists to Persuade...
All the experts tell us not to pay too much attention to polls for another week or two. Still, it does look as if Hillary Clinton got a big bounce from her convention, swamping her opponent’s bounce a...
View ArticleRobert Mundell And Supply Side Economics
Robert Mundell And Supply Side Economics The death of Nobel Prize winner Robert A. Mundell at age 88 has brought forth much discussion about his work and legacy. Most of this discussion, such as...
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