tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post2519027525455376078..comments2024-03-09T03:20:20.004-05:00Comments on Tenured Radical: Sunday Radical Roundup: Death, Taxes and HomoconsTenured Radicalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05703980598547163290noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-6666476559376603582010-03-31T22:16:58.806-05:002010-03-31T22:16:58.806-05:00The best book on US economic policy I read for gen...The best book on US economic policy I read for general exams was Robin Einhorn's <i><a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&bookkey=3750524" rel="nofollow">American Taxation, American Slavery</a></i>. Its basic point is that arguments for low taxes and small government, in the early 19th century, went hand in hand with pro-slavery political cultures (though the details are more subtle than that.) The economic historians hated it, to judge from the review articles, but it's entirely worth a read.<br /><br />(Put it together with <i>Soul By Soul</i> and <i>The People's Welfare</i> and you have the makings of a good survey lecture or 2 on "the market" in the early 19th century.)cliotropichttp://cliotropic.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-65615708962880041982010-03-30T18:17:19.162-05:002010-03-30T18:17:19.162-05:00Not all of us "comfortably unemployed" (...Not all of us "comfortably unemployed" (some far less comfortable than others) are out tea partying. Activism, digital agitating and ankle biting for the greater good, is the ideal retirement hobby. I am active in the New Faculty Majority Coalition - comfortable (in a different sense of the word) in the sure knowledge that the unemployed cannot be fired (or not rehired) for speaking out.Vanessa Vailehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04647639725252430851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-35340512739303595212010-03-29T12:56:46.757-05:002010-03-29T12:56:46.757-05:00TR,
I'm a long-time reader and a big fan. Any...TR,<br /><br />I'm a long-time reader and a big fan. Any recommendations for sources on taxation - primary or secondary - that I can include in my US survey (second half) next semester? Thanks!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-24404804442461146512010-03-29T11:26:34.444-05:002010-03-29T11:26:34.444-05:00http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?story...http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125175160<br /><br />"In fact, there are incentives in this law to enlarge the pool of primary care doctors. One big one, which was added very late, is that they are going to increase payments for Medicaid primary care doctors to what Medicare pays. That will be a big increase.<br /><br />There is increased loan forgiveness — up to $50,000 — for primary care doctors who join the National Health Service Corps. They go off and practice in underserved areas.<br /><br />There's going to be more primary care residency slots, and there will be other inducements for primary care doctors. As I mentioned earlier, there will be changes in the way doctors are paid and health care is organized, so those will be other kinds of longer term changes in the medical system that are supposed to encourage doctors to become primary care doctors. On the other hand, there's not that much to be done about the fact that medical school is very expensive and that specialists will still be paid more than primary care doctors."Mark Killehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11136177821995623112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-90699128710001442992010-03-28T14:38:43.172-05:002010-03-28T14:38:43.172-05:00TR, do you know if there is anything in the bill j...TR, do you know if there is anything in the bill just passed that will increase the supply of primary-care physicians to accommodate all of the new customers? I heard they were going to fiddle with Medicaid reimbursements to encourage more folks to go into primary care, but that doesn't seem to be adequate. Increasing demand without correspondingly increasing supply seems to me will lead to increasing cost, delay and frustration rather than more jobs.JackDanielsBlackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17285871354441074406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-68053804928503430022010-03-28T13:11:51.209-05:002010-03-28T13:11:51.209-05:00Jack:
I did suspect it from my experience, since ...Jack:<br /><br />I did suspect it from my experience, since I talked to lots of retired people (and my superficial impression was that it was an older crowd. By that, I mean substantially older than me, and I am 52.) but that wouldn't be relevant except as far as the allusion to suspecting that what the Times article commented on could be the case.<br /><br />Anyway, I think it stands to reason that the health bill -- of it expands services - is a job creator, since it will pour money into the insurance companies and more people will seek routine care.Tenured Radicalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05703980598547163290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-59438757245256588372010-03-28T10:17:56.489-05:002010-03-28T10:17:56.489-05:00TR, weren't you out there interviewing the tea...TR, weren't you out there interviewing the tea party folks a few months back? How many that you talked to were unemployed? (Of course at the rate we are going under the current administration, we'll all be unemployed before long. Oh, I know -- blame it on Bush, but when you do, remember that the Democrats have had control of congress for the past four years.) <br />I don't know whether the President can actually do much to influence the economy, but the least he can do is act like he's concerned and trying, instead of spending 90% of his time on other issues.JackDanielsBlackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17285871354441074406noreply@blogger.com