Labeling for Increased Profits, Farmer and Economist, Michael Smith It is a well-known marketing ploy to label, relabel, and even mislabel a product again and again to increase sales. We…

…the Republicans are even worse than Obama’s – and they tend to support anti-growth tax policies (calling them pro-growth doesn’t change the data), what should a rational person do? I…

…opponents of mechanization or advocates of short-time working, a reasoning they label as a misconception and which we know today under the label ‘lump of labor’ fallacy ‘. But the…

…been good at rapid economic growth and much else, although suffering many ills on the environment and income distribution, not to mention also being dictatorial. Social democracy a la Sweden…

…today. Divide $1212.8 Billion by 78 million and you get $15,549 per beneficiary. Table VI.F2 says this is 15.67% of “taxable income. The same line gives the SS income rate…

…for the middle income group at this time–the Democrats because they recognize that the tax cuts are still needed at a time of continuing slow growth out of the Great…

…decline in imports that accompanied the contraction of the economy rather than a growth in exports, as happened in Ireland and Portugal. The lack of Greek export growth has been…

Economics, the Realm of Money and the Significance of GDP Growth, with an Application to Child Labor What’s economics? There are two answers. One is it’s the sphere of human…

…has performed far better, by almost any measure, under Democratic presidents. Larry Bartels’ key graph mapping income growth by quintile, 1948-2005 (from page 33 of Unequal Democracy) is perhaps the…

…income taxes or estate taxes, and many other very wealthy people would pay income taxes at a single-digit rate, the elimination of these taxes would apply as well to the…