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Matt Bruenig

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835 from 1 Jul 2011 to 31 Aug 2026
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2026 7

  1. Three More Thoughts on AI
  2. Yglesias, Israel, and Moderation
  3. What Am I Doing With AI These Days?
  4. My Fully Automated Labor Law Research Tool Is Finally Here
  5. What even is an autonomous AI agent?
  6. Technical Details of My LLM-Generated Book
  7. Some Thoughts on AI

2025 6

  1. The Midwit Theory of Geoff Shullenberger
  2. Desert and Capitalism Again
  3. Dissecting My Recent Argument (Are Error Theories Offensive?)
  4. The Fertility Question
  5. Yglesias on the Politics of NAFTA
  6. Three Years of Solar Panels Reduced My Electricity Bill $8,935

2024 9

  1. Election Musings
  2. The Stupid Price Gouging Discourse
  3. The Joe Biden Policy Platform
  4. Does The Child Earnings Penalty Actually Exist?
  5. A Personal Case for College Admissions Exams
  6. Brad Wilcox's Wife
  7. An Interest in Being Unique
  8. Why There Is No Standing Requirement for Filing NLRA Charges
  9. I Filed Charges Against Cumulus Media for Maintaining 17 Illegal Handbook Rules

2023 22

  1. Dysfunctional Coalition Politics
  2. Abortions Now Exceed Pre-Dobbs Levels
  3. Why Did Noah Smith Post This?
  4. Alarmgate
  5. Response to Douthat on Two-Parent Families
  6. Doing the Marriage Thing Again
  7. Oliver Anthony and Distributive Justice
  8. Winship's Mental Block on Taxes
  9. Dropping a Subscript — Matt Bruenig
  10. Two Examples of Capturing Inflation-Driven Revenue — Matt Bruenig
  11. Why Did Used Car Prices Go Up So Much? — Matt Bruenig
  12. Is MOHELA the State? — Matt Bruenig
  13. Abortion Down By Less Than 3 Percent — Matt Bruenig
  14. Are Price Subsidies Price Controls? — Matt Bruenig
  15. Fairlife Refuses to Inflate Prices — Matt Bruenig
  16. More on Inflation and Profits — Matt Bruenig
  17. Is National Public Radio Actually National Private Radio? — Matt Bruenig
  18. Equality and Equity — Matt Bruenig
  19. Who Decides for Children? — Matt Bruenig
  20. The Total Fertility Rate Is Kind of a Nonsense Statistic — Matt Bruenig
  21. Childlessness Did Not Cause Birth Rate Decline — Matt Bruenig
  22. Solar Panels Reduced My Electric Bill by $2,677 in 2022 — Matt Bruenig

2022 17

  1. The Contradictions of Deliberative Democracy — Matt Bruenig
  2. Babies on Planes — Matt Bruenig
  3. Pronouns — Matt Bruenig
  4. Abortion Pills After Dobbs — Matt Bruenig
  5. What Did Dobbs Actually Accomplish? — Matt Bruenig
  6. The Paycheck Protection Program Did Not Really Provide Loans — Matt Bruenig
  7. The Best Basketball Player Ever Probably Never Touched a Basketball — Matt Bruenig
  8. Normie Politics — Matt Bruenig
  9. Abortion — Matt Bruenig
  10. The Origins of the Recent DEI-Infused Liberal Politics Stuff — Matt Bruenig
  11. Federalist ULP Ends In Big Let Down — Matt Bruenig
  12. Reactions to the Alito Opinion — Matt Bruenig
  13. Conservatives and Corporate Power — Matt Bruenig
  14. Jill Filipovic On Compensating Non-Market Care Work — Matt Bruenig
  15. Military Spending Should Be Cut — Matt Bruenig
  16. Socialism and Industry — Matt Bruenig
  17. The Argument in the Family Fun Pack — Matt Bruenig

2021 26

  1. The Inflation Question — Matt Bruenig
  2. Carmen Ortiz Has Blood On Her Hands — Matt Bruenig
  3. How To Compare Incomes Across Countries — Matt Bruenig
  4. Marx Was an Obsessive Wonk — Matt Bruenig
  5. Racial Politics in Schools — Matt Bruenig
  6. Is the Strike and Quit Wave Due to Vaccine Mandates? — Matt Bruenig
  7. Popularism and the Child Tax Credit — Matt Bruenig
  8. When McDonalds Came to Denmark — Matt Bruenig
  9. Swiss Welfare State Graphic — Matt Bruenig
  10. The SCOTUS Design Is Gamed By Strategic Retirements — Matt Bruenig
  11. Delay and Grandparenthood — Matt Bruenig
  12. Home Ownership Is Still Mostly Renting — Matt Bruenig
  13. Does the Tuskegee Experiment Really Explain Black Vaccination Rates? — Matt Bruenig
  14. Is Decommodification Socialism? — Matt Bruenig
  15. Norway, Oil, and Climate — Matt Bruenig
  16. Picking a Health Insurance Plan — Matt Bruenig
  17. Why Care About History Class? — Matt Bruenig
  18. Critical Race Theory — Matt Bruenig
  19. The Anti-Bigness Ideology — Matt Bruenig
  20. What Is Lost in Post-Scarcity? — Matt Bruenig
  21. The Communal Feeling of Monopoly — Matt Bruenig
  22. Socialism and the Welfare State — Matt Bruenig
  23. The Private Property and Personal Property Distinction — Matt Bruenig
  24. Contracting Covid Is Like Getting an 84% Efficacy Vaccine — Matt Bruenig
  25. Democrats Who Disenfranchise — Matt Bruenig
  26. Is Meritocracy Real? — Matt Bruenig

2018 1

  1. Trump NLRB Smashed Google Guy — Matt Bruenig

2017 43

  1. Neoliberals Used to Refer to Themselves as New Democrats — Matt Bruenig
  2. Alabama Part II — Matt Bruenig
  3. What actually happened in Alabama? — Matt Bruenig
  4. Weird UBI Argument About Rents — Matt Bruenig
  5. Land as soil and land as space — Matt Bruenig
  6. The Legal Situation of DNAinfo and Gothamist — Matt Bruenig
  7. The Boring Story of the 2016 Election — Matt Bruenig
  8. On the Difference Between Political and Technical Concerns — Matt Bruenig
  9. You Prevent Private Coercion With Labor Market Regulation — Matt Bruenig
  10. You Need Rules — Matt Bruenig
  11. The Trump NLRB Will Smash the Google Guy — Matt Bruenig
  12. The Success Sequence Is About Cultural Beefs Not Poverty — Matt Bruenig
  13. Nordic Socialism Is Realer Than You Think — Matt Bruenig
  14. Some Opponents of UBI Necessarily Believe the Racial Wealth Gap Is Good — Matt Bruenig
  15. How many people will Obamacare and AHCA kill? — Matt Bruenig
  16. If fireproofing is a waste for the poor, it is also a waste for the rich — Matt Bruenig
  17. Young People Are the Future — Matt Bruenig
  18. Logical Syllogism Showing That Corbyn Proves the Left Is Correct — Matt Bruenig
  19. Why would rich disabled parents spoof their kid's disability? — Matt Bruenig
  20. California Single Payer Costs Look Very Doable — Matt Bruenig
  21. Idiotic Commentary on California's Single Payer Push — Matt Bruenig
  22. Single Payer Payroll Taxes — Matt Bruenig
  23. California's Surprisingly Cheap Single Payer Plan — Matt Bruenig
  24. More Job Guarantee Muddle — Matt Bruenig
  25. Would Ending the Mortgage Interest Deduction Reduce the Racial Wealth Gap? — Matt Bruenig
  26. The Racial Wealth Gap and Homeownership Nonsense — Matt Bruenig
  27. The US Should Spend at Least $15 Trillion More on Welfare — Matt Bruenig
  28. Education Is Just Another Issue — Matt Bruenig
  29. Where Deep Child Poverty Comes From — Matt Bruenig
  30. The Oddities of the EITC and Why We Should Think Twice About Its Further Expansion — Matt Bruenig
  31. James Baldwin on the Immiseration of Inequality — Matt Bruenig
  32. Take Other Kids to Work Day Highlights the Absurdity of Social Mobility — Matt Bruenig
  33. Tax Day and the Rich — Matt Bruenig
  34. Asian Poverty Varies a Lot by Group — Matt Bruenig
  35. Come See the Violence Inherent in the System — Matt Bruenig
  36. Poor Disabled Children Pushed Off of SSI Because of Welfare Reform Had Horrible Lives — Matt Bruenig
  37. Has Underemployment Among College Graduates Gone Up? — Matt Bruenig
  38. Why Consumption Taxes are Fine — Matt Bruenig
  39. The VAT Tax — Matt Bruenig
  40. College Degrees for Child Care? — Matt Bruenig
  41. Are Boomers Really Doing Well? — Matt Bruenig
  42. Nickel-and-dime socialism — Matt Bruenig
  43. The UBI already exists for the 1% — Matt Bruenig

2016 14

  1. Demonizing, Not Engaging — Matt Bruenig
  2. How certain liberals permanently erase the working class — Matt Bruenig
  3. On Diaper Stamps — Matt Bruenig
  4. The NY Primary Punditry Shows How Yet Again Nobody Cares About Process — Matt Bruenig
  5. Class and the Discourse — Matt Bruenig
  6. Ferdinand Lassalle on the Wages of Abstinence — Matt Bruenig
  7. Real Life Capitalism Whack-A-Mole — Matt Bruenig
  8. The Meidner Plan for Socialism — Matt Bruenig
  9. Meritocrats and Egalitarians — Matt Bruenig
  10. Transfer Programs and Black Poverty — Matt Bruenig
  11. What Makes Police Reform Racial Justice? — Matt Bruenig
  12. More Notes on Reparations — Matt Bruenig
  13. How To Use Single Payer Healthcare As Trojan Horse For A Good Welfare State — Matt Bruenig
  14. Counterfactual Identity Swap — Matt Bruenig

2015 57

  1. The Story of Eric Harwood — Matt Bruenig
  2. Are Students Workers or Nonworkers? — Matt Bruenig
  3. Welfare Schools and Psychoanalyzing Education Reformers — Matt Bruenig
  4. Why Are Libertarians Mostly Men? — Matt Bruenig
  5. Here Come the Idiots — Matt Bruenig
  6. Full Employment and Welfare — Matt Bruenig
  7. The Muddled Globalization Debate — Matt Bruenig
  8. The Argument for Free College — Matt Bruenig
  9. Can you sustain an economic philosophy solely by begging the question? — Matt Bruenig
  10. Capitalism is coercive and creates patterns of deprivation, as explained by libertarian blockquotes — Matt Bruenig
  11. Want to Fight Poverty? Expand Welfare. Always Expand Welfare. — Matt Bruenig
  12. Nobody Is On Twitter — Matt Bruenig
  13. Lies About Corbyn from the Capitalist Hyena Press — Matt Bruenig
  14. Technical details for my analysis of 2014 poverty data — Matt Bruenig
  15. How to Tax and Spend 0% of GDP and 100% of GDP Without Affecting Anything — Matt Bruenig
  16. What is the left supposed to do electorally? — Matt Bruenig
  17. The Left Wing of the Fundable — Matt Bruenig
  18. Arguments about Capitalism and Poverty — Matt Bruenig
  19. The Problems of Identity Policing and Invisible Identities for Identitarian Deference — Matt Bruenig
  20. Nontax Revenue Accounts for 92% of Growth in "Taxpayer Money" Since 1970 — Matt Bruenig
  21. Race and Class Part 2 — Matt Bruenig
  22. Class and Race — Matt Bruenig
  23. The Success Sequence Is Extremely Misleading And Impossible To Code — Matt Bruenig
  24. Issues With The Job Guarantee — Matt Bruenig
  25. How "Consistent Liberal" Deceives — Matt Bruenig
  26. Why Have Property At All? — Matt Bruenig
  27. An Actually Meaningful Homogeneity Argument — Matt Bruenig
  28. A Basic Welfare Framework — Matt Bruenig
  29. Institutions Matter Except When They Are Socialist — Matt Bruenig
  30. The Social Democratic Sharing Economy — Matt Bruenig
  31. Transrace and Transgender — Matt Bruenig
  32. What are the costs of attending college? — Matt Bruenig
  33. Is the GPL aggression? — Matt Bruenig
  34. Copyleft communism and the innovation it facilitates — Matt Bruenig
  35. The amusing case of tech libertarians — Matt Bruenig
  36. Cultural capital and meritocratic circularity
  37. Wages and child poverty
  38. Does brand differentiation lower prices
  39. If you want really low poverty market income is not going to get you there
  40. Wages of abstinence and risk
  41. Have i myself not worked
  42. Vampire capital
  43. Wealth inequality and student debt
  44. Two notions of liberty
  45. A note on libertarian anti paternalism
  46. Short note on norways oil and sovereign wealth fund
  47. Cop unions
  48. If clueless people shouldnt vote then should damon linker
  49. Why the big government land deed program creates growth destroying distortions
  50. Notalllibertarians an illustration
  51. Handling disputes without property rights on public basketball courts
  52. Rothbards point about child neglect
  53. Should the state steal from the poor
  54. Violence property and entitlement
  55. Frozen darkness is depressing
  56. Pareto fail
  57. Low hanging tax code simplification

2014 106

  1. Uber surge prices part iii
  2. Right to own
  3. Actually breaking windows is good
  4. Deeply serious procedural justice question
  5. Higher education the nordics and the matthew effect
  6. The social democratic majorities in the nordics
  7. Instant runoff voting and strategic voting
  8. Gentrification
  9. The state does not enforce most agreements
  10. Regulation and private laws
  11. How much do economists understand piketty
  12. Wonderful property rights dispute in san francisco
  13. Quick note on student living expenses
  14. Decisive victory in the grandpa sumner saga
  15. Grandpa sumner at it again
  16. Cutting poverty is super easy
  17. What would it take to make sarah kendzior admit this is not true
  18. Last place avoidance and poor white racism
  19. Capitalism does not reward risk
  20. Force arguments continue to be the rhetorical backwater of idiots
  21. Desert sacrifice utility whack a mole
  22. Lets continue referring to the work life balance
  23. Tradition aggression desert whack a mole
  24. Is social security defensible on traditionalist grounds or not
  25. Here is exactly how the census supplemental poverty calculation is derived
  26. Some problems with this traditionalist stuff
  27. It isnt your money
  28. The proper libertarian position on child licenses
  29. Capitalism whack a mole
  30. Does working reduce poverty
  31. Structural poverty obviously the case
  32. Just war theory is window dressing
  33. Reihan lol
  34. Does nature command the destruction of all human liberty
  35. Osama bin laden in the wall street journal
  36. But what belongs to who
  37. Damon linkers just war gloss
  38. A slippery slope towards justice
  39. Government on net incentivizes work and employment
  40. Labors paycheck fetishism
  41. Judicial decision punditry and free association
  42. Free college narratives
  43. Poor whites and the left
  44. Kevin hassett misrepresents piketty
  45. Peter frase on class identity
  46. Pick up basketball and grab what you can
  47. Jacobinghazi recap
  48. More opportunistic misreads
  49. Opportunistic misreads
  50. Class and data
  51. College prices have not increased by 1200 percent
  52. What do journalists do
  53. Higher ed contributes inequality
  54. The trouble with bad working conditions
  55. Locke and hobhouse on coercion
  56. Low child poverty how does it work
  57. Reverse reparations and status quo bias
  58. Amartya sen and reparations
  59. What would constitute an end to the race war
  60. Another false education statistic
  61. Talking about pay
  62. Anti liberty economic regulations a dialogue
  63. Desert theory rehashed
  64. Property and conflict
  65. Imagine people did things they already do
  66. Rich parents planned this
  67. The mcardle paragraph
  68. College cost trends from 1999 2012
  69. On money and meaning
  70. Law professor argues protectionism for law professors definitely good
  71. Fun game identify the aggressor in this animated gif
  72. Subscribe to my newsletter
  73. Salvaging non aggression for egalitarianism
  74. A moral exemplar
  75. Last word on mozilla
  76. The future is sophistic
  77. Kevin williamsons hilarious about face
  78. Hobby lobby april fools joke
  79. Process religious liberty and contraception
  80. No violence but personal violence
  81. Violence vouchers a descriptive account of property
  82. On fivethirtyeight
  83. Piketty on marx
  84. Piketty on economists
  85. Dumb graph shows nothing
  86. One thing a conservative wrote this week that is really bad
  87. What do voluntary
  88. Trigger warning maos cultural revolution
  89. Should the state support anti gay discrimination
  90. Screw up in high school if you are rich
  91. B o b and taylor swift on the inadequacy of mobility and opportunity
  92. The christian socialist on the inadequacy mobility opportunity
  93. Felix frankfurter on delusional judges
  94. Grover cleveland on the economy in 1888
  95. Less pay is not arguably higher than more pay
  96. Poverty isolates
  97. Social and cultural capital probably keep poor kids out of media jobs too
  98. Why poor kids do not get media jobs
  99. Initial appropriation a dialogue
  100. Libertarian julian sanchez agrees non aggression is circular
  101. How a reductio ad absurdum works
  102. This book about poor people is not basically about rich people
  103. False statistic 76 percent of american faculty are adjuncts
  104. The other move on property
  105. How the property is coercive violence move functions in the debate
  106. Baselines still useless a reminder

2013 234

  1. The myth of ownership affects judges part ii
  2. Top 5 posts of the year
  3. Salon free speech hypocrites dixie chicks duck dynasty and america s pointless shell arguments
  4. Duck dynasty jim crow and poor whites
  5. Three levels of politics
  6. Another intuition pump on the defining issue of our time
  7. Liberals and class
  8. Admitted fuck up ezra klein is less interested in inequality than you are
  9. Salon guess what elites not all young people are rich
  10. What does the national data say about adjuncts
  11. Grudge match mike konczal and i on the graduate tax
  12. Sarah kendzior performatively proves my point on working class erasure
  13. Identitarianism and the working class
  14. 4 responses to my higher education piece
  15. Who has more
  16. What about the independent students
  17. 3 theses on higher education
  18. Pick the externality
  19. Section 8 vouchers and the myth of ownership
  20. One last note on redistribution
  21. Horizontal equity and pay it forward
  22. No serious there is no non political definition of theft
  23. How does wonkblog use redistribution
  24. A simpler rule for questions of when to interrupt speech
  25. Kati haycock wrong on pay it forward wrong for america
  26. Salon social conservatives enduring myth women just want to stay home
  27. The atlantic how to cut the poverty rate in half its easy
  28. Elitist theory of social change and the dreamers
  29. Policy shop weekly digest social security tech bros mill
  30. The poors and writing for free on the internet
  31. Policy shop bi weekly digest merit heroes poverty poverty
  32. Almost all charity arguments are analytically confused
  33. How not to argue about human rights
  34. The coase theorem alive and well in east new york
  35. Policy shop weekly digest liberty basic income
  36. I beg anyone to tell me how i am wrong please
  37. More bad pay it forward arguments
  38. Salon dudebros and millennials shouldn t determine who gets healthcare
  39. Non aggression never does any argumentative work at any time
  40. My basic income calculator
  41. Jason kuznicki just makes things up sometimes
  42. Policy shop weekly digest snap poverty inequality power
  43. Here is exactly how the census poverty calculation is derived
  44. Policy shop weekly digest disability insurance desert
  45. One other note on solving poverty
  46. Education and poverty again
  47. Strike debt calls for increasing inequality again
  48. That tfa study
  49. Man complains about poor economic indicators while smashing things
  50. Policy shop weekly digest free contracts hoppe polanyi
  51. Me and modern monetary theory
  52. Salon the 1 percent s ivy league loophole
  53. Policy shop weekly digest the week of polanyi
  54. There is a difference between conventional and chemical weapons
  55. Middle out economics already producing serious policy confusion
  56. Policy shop weekly digest income inequality student debt racial inequality
  57. Policy shop weekly digest food stamps poverty libertarianism homelessness
  58. To divide by income or not to divide by income that is the question
  59. Policy shop weekly digest social capital inequality public college costs
  60. The nozickian case for rawls difference principle
  61. Policy shop weekly digest fast food strikes free higher education
  62. Walmart and jobs stop
  63. Policy shop weekly digest poverty social mobility higher education
  64. Student debt and wealth and here we go again
  65. How many birth right privileges should we have
  66. Policy shop poverty is poison
  67. The soul of man under socialism in the new york times
  68. Policy shop which economic classes have the most student debt
  69. Policy shop shadow stats and tom coburns inflation fantasies
  70. Policy shop transferring cash to poor people at the local level
  71. Tm scanlon is wrong about in kind benefits and you might be too
  72. A way to think about in kind benefits and cash transfers
  73. On process and scarcity
  74. The response to the mcdonalds budget
  75. Policy shop yes teach for america is a political organization
  76. The plan inclusive counterplan giving education wonks so much trouble
  77. Arguing about arguing about pay it forward
  78. The best way to fund higher education for students
  79. Short responses to arguments regarding income based repayment
  80. The atlantic the 2 supreme court cases that could put a dagger in organized labor
  81. Policy shop the distraction of socioeconomic diversity and mop up the disaster policy
  82. All aboard the amusing aft contradiction train
  83. At this point higher education debate is apparently about tax policy
  84. Tell me where the injustice creeps in
  85. Policy shop oregon is doing free higher education the right way
  86. Policy shop making equality local
  87. Socialize big pharma research
  88. Intro to distributive justice
  89. Policy shop scotus and the uncertain future of organized labor
  90. Policy shop recalling a false golden age of college accessibility
  91. On student fetishism
  92. A circularity in just deserts
  93. Policy shop lgbt employment rights
  94. Policy shop college isnt the answer to inequality
  95. Policy shop how about a u s sovereign wealth fund
  96. Whats more important a college degree or being born rich
  97. Policy shop challenge inequality by changing who owns capital
  98. Two kinds of anti paternalism
  99. Policy shop corporate income tax arguments almost always miss the point
  100. Household labor the least alienating of all
  101. Implementing socialism
  102. Policy shop new evidence of how declining union power has hurt worker wages
  103. Policy shop free higher education and the zero illusion
  104. Policy shop why so called consumption inequality misses the point
  105. Policy shop ramping up the war on the poor
  106. What kinds of war tactics are justified for those resisting usuk invasions
  107. Just war theory and the uk soldier killing
  108. Giving a kid a computer is not the same as cash transfers
  109. Policy shop illegal internship season is upon us
  110. How mondragon handles cooperative failures
  111. Policy shop ignore the stock market the economy is not back
  112. How mondragon stops workers from selling out
  113. Adventures in consensus
  114. College price discrimination is impressively effective
  115. Policy shop how low poverty countries do it
  116. Oecd poverty animation for 2010
  117. What motivates the austerity crowd
  118. My favorite libertarian argument
  119. Mondragon cooperatives use capital accounts
  120. Policy shop the youth income crisis
  121. Policy shop is a universal basic income really utopian
  122. The weak feminist case against a basic income
  123. The debt dance
  124. Policy shop the most viable way to give a boost to low income workers
  125. Mooc of the day
  126. Argumentation 101
  127. Elizabeth warrens goofy student debt proposal
  128. Why discussions of government benefits are so wrong
  129. Policy shop college grads take bad jobs that once went to non college workers
  130. Some mooc points
  131. Policy shop the oregon medicaid success
  132. Youth debt levels falling
  133. Clarifying remarks on futile leftism
  134. Landlords and capitalists
  135. The death spiral of futile leftism
  136. Against local food
  137. Arguing about education reforms teaching methods
  138. Policy shop the stem myth
  139. Student debt and the macroeconomy
  140. Who does us austerity benefit
  141. How badly do 4 year public and private schools skew rich
  142. More interesting tumblr arguments
  143. Poor people in the top 200 colleges ii
  144. What are college costs
  145. Does crushing debt discourage college enrollment
  146. Fascinating tumblr arguments
  147. Peter frase on reinhart rogoff debacle
  148. Poor people in the top 200 colleges
  149. The argument against inequality as such
  150. The atlantic inequality hurts the rich and poor alike
  151. Cheating scandals undercut theories of reform success
  152. Policy shop the carbon tax is appropriately rated
  153. Bitcoin growth deflation
  154. Policy shop job training is not the answer
  155. Why i tend to disbelieve employers
  156. Just give everyone food stamps
  157. Cash benefit programs are not really government spending
  158. Lets start at 0 1
  159. Policy shop the trickiness of measuring inequality
  160. Poverty and race and net worth
  161. Poverty and race
  162. The corrupt university
  163. Policy shop the horrible youth labor market
  164. The late nozick warmed up to coercive violence
  165. Policy shop why congress should cut student loan interest rates
  166. Policy shop the problem with state funded higher education
  167. Policy shop the burden free carbon tax
  168. Policy shop why poor kids really dont go to college
  169. Teach for americas poverty safari
  170. Austerity for the gander
  171. Cultural hegemony and the naturalness of property
  172. A fascinating argument against primary education vouchers
  173. Me at demos
  174. Individual responsibility and situations
  175. Anti mooc advocacy
  176. Profit margins for high wage retailers
  177. Down with rentiers
  178. Income inequality is very rigid
  179. The dramatic decline of rapes and sexual assaults
  180. The problems with income based repayment
  181. Families dont balance their budgets
  182. A breakdown of the federal debt
  183. How big of a problem is food access really
  184. Fun with equal opportunity
  185. Equal opportunty is inadequate
  186. How to argue for public goods
  187. The class composition of college graduates
  188. Higher education is more class diverse than it used to be
  189. Short summary the federal debt is not a generational issue
  190. Latest fed report on student debt
  191. Yglesias and ackerman in violent internet fight
  192. Yglesias on left economic mistakes
  193. Why are unpaid internships on the rise
  194. The garbage logic of the eitc alternative to the minimum wage
  195. Short summary argument for minimum wage increase
  196. The social wage
  197. Transit fares and distribution
  198. What does identitarian deference require
  199. What is the proper way to finance higher education
  200. How unequal would free college actually be
  201. Getting serious about using investment for social change
  202. Student debt blogging at its absolute worst
  203. Socialize finance to reduce inequality
  204. Us poverty rates broken down finer than ever before
  205. Thoughts on degree inflation
  206. Womens labor force participation across different countries
  207. A flowchart of rawls theory of distributive justice
  208. That time when we fought poverty and won
  209. What dance moms teaches us about cultural hegemony
  210. Transfers really do work
  211. Generational justice is extremely tricky
  212. How to socialize finance tomorrow
  213. Members of congress with student debt
  214. Amartya sen what is a human right
  215. Think deeply about what closing the achievement gap requires
  216. The reagan myth
  217. More fun with procedural property rights
  218. Looks like rich kids are driving up college costs
  219. Soltas and squirrels
  220. Response to evan soltas on generational transfers
  221. Are rich kids driving up the cost of college
  222. How many trans people are there
  223. Leftist pluralism is different
  224. Labor strike dataset
  225. Neat labor strike data from the cps
  226. Problems with a left moral and political narrative
  227. Introducing datasets project first up disability
  228. John quiggin criticizes socializing finance
  229. Kants great dodge
  230. Virtue ethics and sovereign debt
  231. Matt yglesias on transfers versus teacher salaries
  232. Another way to spend money on education
  233. On trickle down economics
  234. Leftist desert theory

2012 231

  1. Why socialize finance
  2. Socialize finance
  3. A note about chris maisanos debt and cost statistics
  4. Chris maisano on student debt
  5. The rich poor education gap in the nytimes
  6. My top five posts in 2012
  7. Cash transfers and ideology
  8. Fun 1950s capitalist propaganda
  9. The impact of fallins medicaid decision
  10. How to means test social security
  11. Some thoughts on newtown shooting
  12. What keeps poor kids out of college short version
  13. What keeps poor kids out of college
  14. Inequality education and predistribution
  15. Some musings about freedom and right to shirk laws
  16. Nicholas kristof is an irresponsible moron
  17. Note on community reinvestment act
  18. Bryan caplan argues against property ownership
  19. Right to work is big government
  20. Mike konczal on the coupon state
  21. Federalism sets the stage for corporatism
  22. Back of the envelope math on universal income based repayment
  23. Free college would be a huge score for the rich
  24. Instead how about you rely on charity to achieve your distributive goals
  25. What is the actual cost of attending college
  26. Unions and redistribution
  27. Proudhon hilariously slamming say
  28. The radical rawls
  29. I am getting fed up personally paying the incomes of everyone else
  30. Its the distribution stupid
  31. Unemployment still a huge problem
  32. The anti oppression paradox
  33. The rolling jubilee and the economically oppressed
  34. Rolling jubilee round up
  35. Class and college
  36. One of these things still not like the others
  37. How much do latinos even care about immigration
  38. One of these things is not like the others
  39. The rights other information disadvantage
  40. What is limited government
  41. The rise of income inequality since 1917
  42. Turns out that poverty is still really bad
  43. Apparently no one ever creates any jobs
  44. Its not your money
  45. Do red states really have high abortion rates
  46. Garett jones confused idea
  47. The problem of nairu and racial justice
  48. New college wage premium numbers from census
  49. The best way to measure wasted youth
  50. People of color pretty concerned about economic issues
  51. What is a mutually beneficial transaction really
  52. Sex discrimination or not a great capability approach example
  53. More support for risk stress model of why poor kids do worse
  54. Database failure wiped out comments
  55. Fairness and the capital gains tax
  56. Per request mattbruenig com is now on facebook
  57. The myth of marriage and inequality at ok4rj
  58. Robert nozick buzzsawing other libertarian frameworks
  59. One last short note on redistribution i promise
  60. A response to adam ozimek of modeled behavior
  61. A little inspiration from john maynard keynes
  62. I published a paper in philosophy and the black experience
  63. The correct vantage point of distributional debates
  64. There is no such thing as redistribution
  65. Robert nozick paternalist hater of liberty
  66. Failed philosophies of property rights
  67. The hidden gem in romneys disaster speech
  68. Another serious problem with rahms lawsuit
  69. Causation and the chicago teachers strike
  70. State of working america 2012 edition is out
  71. Think about the poverty cycle really hard
  72. Ridiculously high doctor compensation levels in the us
  73. Why talking about the cause of poverty is incoherent
  74. Closing the social security shortfall is easy give it a try
  75. The error almost everyone makes about individual economic advancement
  76. Why republicans talk about hardship of parents and grandparents
  77. Voters do not know very much
  78. Hurricane evacuations and the capability approach
  79. Dinesh dsouzas 2016 obamas america
  80. Corporations are primarily intellectual property rentiers
  81. The never ending libertarian quest to appear clever
  82. The obscene suffering of black youth
  83. A defect of randian and nietzschean conservatism
  84. The reality of medicare
  85. The economist brilliantly refutes itself in the same article
  86. The biggest enemy of poverty reduction
  87. What sort of people actually lost jobs during the recession
  88. Paul ryans plan in brief
  89. College is not the solution
  90. Another interesting gop class divide
  91. The left and the younger generation
  92. On paul ryans vice presidential candidacy
  93. Countering the right wing arguments about investment
  94. Student debt disproportionately burdens the well off
  95. Kwame anthony appiahs take on microfoundations
  96. The economic policy uncertainty index and the judy miller problem
  97. The tricky causation of single mother poverty and inequality
  98. The gender pay gap really does matter
  99. Conservatives do not actually care about freedom of contract
  100. The decline of good jobs and its significance
  101. On vacation
  102. United states inequality relative to oecd inequality
  103. United states income taxes still relatively low
  104. Explosive for profit school report details horrific exploitation
  105. Necessary and sufficient conditions for improving educational achievement of poor kids
  106. The disgusting and depressing poverty dodge
  107. The federal government should just borrow money and invest it
  108. What causes teenage births
  109. Two fresh policy ideas to help underwater homeowners
  110. The causal ambiguity underlying the you didnt build that controversy
  111. Animation of transfers reducing poverty across 34 countries
  112. Countries eliminate poverty through tax and transfer programs
  113. Us wealth mobility in one chart
  114. The advantages of having rich parents
  115. A survey of student debt elimination ideas
  116. Us social mobility in one chart
  117. Liberal equality is inevitable so what now
  118. Workplace coercion and the capability approach
  119. The explosive libor scandal
  120. On libertarianism workplace coercion and scarcity
  121. Liberal equality of opportunity according to rawls
  122. Governments already existing hand in us health insurance
  123. On a short hiatus
  124. In a stunner researchers find health insurance is good
  125. The nearly invisible 44 percent of students
  126. Why does everyone misunderstand social contract theory
  127. Student borrowing increase largely driven by for profit schools
  128. New student debt data from federal reserve
  129. A direct action success for dream activists
  130. Income taxes are voluntary
  131. Equity financing for college education
  132. Military suicide rate and the importance of demographic controls
  133. Remember oil price hysteria
  134. Everything about the economy is a distortion
  135. All the merit money can buy
  136. Unions and inequality
  137. Desert theory and taxing the poor
  138. Naysayers are wrong the labor movement is here to stay
  139. How effective is student aid
  140. Why not socialism
  141. Meritocratic delusions and inequality
  142. Obamas economic record and campaign simplicity
  143. The confused quebec student protests
  144. Americans still big fans of the rich
  145. Fun with the labor theory of property
  146. Teenage pregnancy and poverty
  147. Political advertising reception and what it means for democracy
  148. On the so called rough economy
  149. A basic primer on rawlsian and egalitarian distributive justice
  150. College wage premium exists even for low skill jobs
  151. Non hispanic whites no longer the majority of us births
  152. Unemployment and monetary policies at the zero lower bound
  153. Class and intersectionality
  154. More on student issues not being poor people issues
  155. The problem with the community consensus approach
  156. Purity leftism
  157. Line by line rebuttal of robert applebaums student debt comments
  158. Student debt and stimulus
  159. Social security and confusion about savings
  160. Why do poor kids do worse in school
  161. More data on the student debt debate
  162. Stop saying the younger generation when referring to recent graduates
  163. Reduce inequality by reducing inequality
  164. Professional degree holders have the highest debt
  165. Do not double student loan rates
  166. A case for equal pay and universal day care
  167. Balance sheet accounting for student debt
  168. Confusion around food deserts
  169. The poor pay 16x higher excise tax rate than the rich
  170. Further rebuttal of just desert theory
  171. Welfare for the rich
  172. Desert theory and social darwinism
  173. A quick note on starving the beast
  174. Identitarianisms class problem
  175. The three conservative philosophical frameworks rebutted
  176. The fairly flat tax burden in 2011
  177. The myth of jobs americans won't do
  178. How money dominates congress
  179. Lockes christian property system
  180. A few more notes on student debt
  181. Unemployment is really painful
  182. On the politics of student debt
  183. The totally confused contraception debate
  184. Economic injustice continues to plague women
  185. On wendy kopp poverty pimp
  186. Co ops can decrease inequality
  187. Education reform will not fix poverty or inequality
  188. Left neoliberalism in a nutshell
  189. On procedural and distributive justice part 22
  190. On procedural and distributive justice part 12
  191. The 1 captured 93 of income gains in 2010
  192. Reviving the strike and the ethics of labor commodification
  193. A problem with one facet of identity politics
  194. Doug henwood on the united stated educational system
  195. Affirmative action in the news again
  196. Unemployment is a structural problem in capitalism
  197. A problem with laissez faire political equilibriums
  198. The contraceptive debate and our dysfunctional healthcare system
  199. Confusion about old age entitlement programs
  200. Frustrations with traditional journalism
  201. Corporate taxes at record low profit margins at record high
  202. Reclaiming john locke from libertarians
  203. Perhaps class consciousness exists after all
  204. Job creator myth revisited
  205. Reproductive justice and the capability approach
  206. Some federal employees have higher incomes than private sector counterparts
  207. What the housing bubble teaches us about political events
  208. Ron paul is exactly like other politicians
  209. The complicated and confusing buffett rule
  210. Using copyright debates to understand conservative economic philosophies
  211. Charity and justice
  212. The right wings unjustified obsession with the capital gains tax
  213. Imagine a class centered campaign against mitt romney
  214. Another content slowdown
  215. The endless struggle for ownership of economic freedom
  216. Strategic bankruptcies students vs private equity firms
  217. Romney proves my thesis about class envy accusations correct
  218. Notes on increasing age qualifications for medicare and social security
  219. Congressional under funding of irs costs the government 385 billion
  220. Bain capital and the social safety net
  221. Are the poor envious of the rich
  222. Effective corporate tax rates are not that high
  223. Two different kinds of libertarians
  224. The new study on value added teacher evaluations and its limitations
  225. One other reason libertarians fear environmentalists
  226. Piracy really costs the economy nothing
  227. Income inequality as a freestanding problem
  228. The crs inequality report and rewarding hard work
  229. How would a sensible unemployed person act
  230. One missed note about ron paul
  231. The strange and scary candidacy of ron paul

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  1. Revisiting pricing out the poor
  2. The rhetoric of job killing has reached absurd levels
  3. Environmentalism poses a problem for libertarian ideology
  4. The three big conservative philosophical frameworks
  5. The tactics of keystone xl protestors
  6. One more swipe at flat tax advocates
  7. The totally baffling idea of a flat tax
  8. Sears and the race to the bottom
  9. Worker to retiree ratio is meaningless for social security
  10. What the hell is a job creator
  11. America still winning inequality competition
  12. The copyright system is broken
  13. Conservatives are correct about cultural transformation
  14. Meaningless measurements remain meaningless
  15. People in the us already pay flat taxes
  16. Corporate executives are not just highly paid workers
  17. Regulations are not the problem but an easy mistake to make
  18. How do we fix the deficit end the wars tax the rich and do some other things too
  19. Pricing out poor people is not a solution
  20. How useful is the poverty line
  21. Quick note on social security reform
  22. Social mobility does not make an economy just
  23. Why dont you just get a job
  24. Remember that production has doubled in the last 40 years
  25. The weird machismo of exploited conservatives
  26. Arguing about property
  27. The goals of occupy wall street
  28. A racial justice case for economic competency
  29. What is good for the economy
  30. Changing my blogging style
  31. On the education reform movement
  32. Exclusive interview with dean baker on making markets progressive
  33. Getting serious about health care costs
  34. Hurricane irene spares the nation from corporate mlk dedication
  35. Conservatives claim about stimulus are wrong
  36. Income tax claims are confused
  37. Study provides more evidence against the bad school hypothesis
  38. The myth of social security insolvency
  39. Hiatus and then a slow down
  40. The american dream and other attacks on deliberative democracy
  41. Boehner and reid agree that poor students should pay more 2
  42. Race to the bottom leads to corporatism
  43. Centrist third party destined to fail
  44. The race and class dynamics of old age entitlement programs
  45. Unemployed still suffering with nowhere to turn
  46. The market is a distortion
  47. Education reformers are making teaching less attractive
  48. The anti libertarian nature of right to work laws
  49. Study misses what poverty is abou
  50. The ideological significance of the financial crisis
  51. The silver lining of the food desert study
  52. Teacher blaming education reform efforts continue in dc
  53. What warnings about job destroying regulations really mean
  54. Ways to think about government distribution policy
  55. Reconsidering the dream act
  56. Enormous productive potential being wasted as unemployment creeps higher
  57. Medicaid study provides support for the program
  58. Good labor news for once connecticut mandates paid sick days
  59. Nea plays the least worst candidate game in obama endorsement
  60. What madison has in common with marx
  61. Deficit reduction debate is really about which class pays
  62. The absurd framing of the boeing labor dispute