Monthly Archives: April 2011

The impending fall of the Western middle-class (part I)

Posted on April 28, 2011 by

Middle-class people in rich Western countries like to tell a story about globalization, which goes something like this. Globalization means that some menial jobs are off-shored or outsourced, but new jobs are created in their wake – setting us on … Continue reading →

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Race, Health, and Disadvantage: the Case of ADHD in Childhood

Posted on April 26, 2011 by

Virtually every classroom has one. The kind of kid (usually a boy) that cannot stop fidgeting, talks out of turn, and distracts others. In the old days this kid might be known as the class clown, and perhaps grudgingly tolerated … Continue reading →

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Raising the pension age: working longer but fairer

Posted on April 21, 2011 by

The chorus of pensions experts in high-income countries have long been singing the refrain, ‘state pension ages should rise’ – people are living longer, pensions are costing more, and the cost can only be brought under control by working for … Continue reading →

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Which generation should pay for long-term care?

Posted on April 19, 2011 by

In a guest post, Craig Berry of the Intergenerational Longevity Centre-UK think-tank asks, can Britain’s Dilnot Commission on long-term care funding achieve intergenerational fairness? The short answer, unfortunately, is no. But that does not mean that the Dilnot Commission is … Continue reading →

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Rolling Back the Submerged State

Posted on April 14, 2011 by

If you listened carefully to President Obama’s big policy speech on the national debt yesterday you may have heard this: “The tax code is also loaded up with spending on things like itemized deductions. And while I agree with the … Continue reading →

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Budgeting in Bad Faith

Posted on April 11, 2011 by

There’s an honest debate that needs to happen in the United States about reducing a large and growing national debt. Instead, we have major confusion at the moment, and most of the seeds have been sown by Representative Paul Ryan … Continue reading →

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Two cheers for the Social Mobility Strategy

Posted on April 7, 2011 by

You can see what they’re trying to do. In the midst of the most savage cuts to public spending in several generations, the UK Coalition Government wants to have a positive, socially conscious message alongside all the bad news. And … Continue reading →

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No Deal: How the Tea Party Has Helped to Stall Obama’s New Deal

Posted on April 5, 2011 by

Charlotte Cavaille reports on a recent Harvard panel about the politics of the Tea Party and the Obama social agenda Commentators and political scientists trying to document the Obama presidency face the following puzzle: why, despite an impressive list of … Continue reading →

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