Government in the Long Run - Infrastructure
Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project. Follow us on Facebook!Introduction:If there is a common malaise of our time, it's short-term thinking in an era when long-term problems loom...
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Education Reform - the Fix is In
Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project. Follow us on Facebook!Introduction:In any other area of public policy where we see rich hedge-funders providing government agencies with private...
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Psychology of Public Policy - Planning vs. Provision
Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project. Follow us on Facebook!Introduction:All political movements at their core face an internal tension between conflicting tenets of their ideology....
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De-commodifying Housing
Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project. Follow us on Facebook!Introduction:If the Great Recession has one common thread that links the U.S, much of the E.U (Ireland, Spain, the U.K),...
View ArticleLiving in the Age of Magical Austerity Thinking
Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project. Follow us on Facebook!Introduction:Franklin Delano Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address diagnosed the essential weirdness of recessions: "our...
View ArticleBeyond the American Jobs Act - Labor Demand Policy
Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project.Introduction:One of the oddest flaws in American public policy is our persistent belief that unemployment and poverty can be dealt with in the...
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Who Are the (X) Percent?
Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project. Follow us on Facebook here.Introduction:The emergence of Occupy Wall Street (OWS) has, if nothing else, has led to a welcome shift in political...
View ArticleReining In the Bond Markets – And Knowing Is Half the Battle…
Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project. Follow us on Facebook!Introduction:If the slow-motion meltdown of the Euro has taught us anything in the last few months, it's that the idea of...
View ArticleReining in the Bond Markets - Public Policy in a Context of Ideological Capture
Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project. Follow us on Facebook!Introduction:In my last piece, I discussed the irrational nature of how the bond markets have reacted to the financial...
View ArticleNew Urbanism and Industrial Policy – Toeing the Triple Line
Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project. Follow us on Facebook!Introduction:In the past, I’ve written about the way in which new urbanism needs to do a better job attending to issues of...
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A Wagner Act for the Public Sector
Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project. Follow us on Facebook!Introduction:The sad reality of the recent spat of right-to-work laws, collective bargaining bans, anti-picketing laws,...
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Labor Market Policy - Tackling the Pyramid of Inequality
Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project. Follow us on Facebook!Introduction:It's somewhat out of vogue to talk about the quality of jobs and the shape of the labor market at a time when...
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