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The Future of Health Care Reform – J. W. Mason

WebThe ACA left employer-based insurance untouched at the heart of the US healthcare system, without resolving the inflationary pressure in the employer market. This pressure …

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Ten Questions on Health Care Reform – J. W. Mason

WebHello readers! Knowing what a brilliant and well-informed bunch you all are, I’m hoping you can help with something. Is there somewhere out there a good critical assessment of the …

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The Nonexistent Rise in Household Consumption – J. W. Mason

WebDid you know that about 10 percent of private consumption in the US consists of Medicare and Medicaid? Despite the fact that these are payments by the government to health …

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At Jacobin: Review of Beth Popp Berman’s Thinking Like an …

WebThe intellectual roots of this shift are the subject of Beth Popp Berman’s new book Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equity in U.S. Public Policy. A distinct style …

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Daily News Op-Ed: Why Is Governor Cuomo Still Trying to Cut …

WebSpecifically, the cuts come via the Medicaid Redesign Team, appointed last month by the governor with the charge of cutting $2.5 billion from the state’s annual health spending.

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Video: The Macro Case for the Green New Deal – J. W. Mason

Web(Earlier this week, I gave a virtual presentation at an event organized by the Roosevelt Institute and the Green New Deal Network. Virtual events are inferior to live ones in …

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March 2024 – J. W. Mason

WebThis is a guest post by Michael Kinnucan. The Collapsing Center and Solidifying Periphery of the US Healthcare System. Contrary to what most people on the US left might tell you, …

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health care – J. W. Mason

WebLast week, as the coronavirus shut down much of New York, the state announced a bold plan to drastically cut funding for the state’s hard-pressed health care providers.

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Teaching – J. W. Mason

WebSyllabus: Alternative Perspectives on Money (graduate class, Fall 2023) A guide to regressions (fall 2021) Capital and capitalism (spring 2020) Productivity, employment …

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Wages, productivity, employment, inflation and distribution …

Web3 in the US appears to be about 20 percent higher than in France. But if you measure it as output per hour, productivity in the US and France are almost exactly equal.1 1 Thomas …

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Marx on the Corporation – J. W. Mason

WebThe inspiration was a column by Matt Levine, where he wondered what Marx would think of the modern corporation.) Let’s begin at the beginning. Capital, for Marx, is not a thing, it’s …

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The Mind of the Master Class – J. W. Mason

WebSearch for: Recent Posts. Keynes and Socialism; At Barron’s: Thank Full Employment, Not AI, for Rising Productivity

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Articles – J. W. Mason

WebWith Arjun Jayadev and Enno Schroeder. Review of Reardon 2014, The Handbook of Pluralist Economics Education . Review of Keynesian Economics, 2017. Mapping India’s …

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New York – J. W. Mason

Web(My Roosevelt colleague Naomi Zewde and I have an op-ed in the March 26 Daily News, criticizing Governor Cuomo’s plans to push ahead with cuts to state Medicaid spending …

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Does State Fiscal Relief During Recessions Increase …

WebDoes State Fiscal Relief During Recessions Increase Employment 4

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Talk on the Economic Mobilization of World War II

WebTwo weeks ago – it feels much longer now – I was up at UMass-Amherst to give a talk on the economic mobilizaiton of World War II and its lessons for the Green New Deal.

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Five Thoughts on Monetary Policy – J. W. Mason

WebFive Thoughts on Monetary Policy. 1. Monetary policy may operate on (a) the quantity of bank liabilities (money); (b) the quantity of bank assets (credit); (c) the price of one or …

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The Political Economy of Financialization in the US, Europe …

Webcounterposed the entrepreneur and the rentier, while Marx’s extensive but scattered writings on finance writings invite – but don’t answer – the question: Should “capital” and “finance”

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The budget is the skeleton of the state stripped of all misleading

WebOver the past five years, Medicaid spending in New York has risen by a steady 4% a year — exactly the same growth rate the state’s economy has had as a whole. And thanks to the …

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reasons to be cheerful – J. W. Mason

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Comments on Michael Hudson: Making Capitalism Great Again

WebMason 575 can be separated in the way he proposes, or that their historical evolution can be understood as a transition from one to the other. Let’s start with the idea that industrial …

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