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Is it Time to Revisit Corporatism?
Over the years, the economy has evolved from the small pre-industrial craft economy, where business enterprises were truly small and the...
Oren Levin-Waldman
Jun 29, 20204 min read
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Rethinking the Need for a National Industrial Policy
The country is beginning to reopen and the cold reality is that the economy will not be what it was before, nor should it be. Perhaps...
Oren Levin-Waldman
Jun 15, 20205 min read
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Labor Monopsony and the Need to Resurrect Labor Market Institutions
Over the last few decades we have seen a tendency in many cases not to enforce anti-trust laws, which were designed to break up...
Oren Levin-Waldman
Jun 1, 20205 min read
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The New Inequality Part II
As the country begins a process of reopening, and increasingly more people, especially those deemed non-essential workers, are protesting...
Oren Levin-Waldman
May 18, 20205 min read
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The New Inequality
Inequality and rising income has long been an issue in any number of political campaigns. The economic fallout from the COVID-19...
Oren Levin-Waldman
May 4, 20205 min read
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Managing a Crisis, and Especially Now, Requires Real Leadership
With the advent of public administration during the early part of the Twentieth Century came what is regarded as the administrative...
Oren Levin-Waldman
Apr 20, 20205 min read
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What Workers Really Need in this Economic Crisis is Liquidity
Any law passed by Congress, even with the noblest intentions is fraught with politics. Every member of Congress attempts to fold his or...
Oren Levin-Waldman
Apr 6, 20204 min read
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A Stimulus Package isn’t Just Another Entitlement; It’s a Constitutional Right
As of this writing Congress cannot agree on a stimulus package to mitigate the economic harm caused by COVID-19. And yet, the economic...
Oren Levin-Waldman
Mar 24, 20205 min read
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Coronavirus, Crisis, and the Changing Nature of Work
Necessity as the mother of invention has long been a driving force for progress. In our political system, the main driver of change has...
Oren Levin-Waldman
Mar 9, 20205 min read
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Serious Economic Policy Should be Predicated on Economic Development
As Bernie Sanders appears to be heading towards front-runner status, any number of people are expressing their shock and dismay over...
Oren Levin-Waldman
Feb 24, 20204 min read
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Labor Market Demographics May be a Better Predictor of Who Wins an Election
As the battle for the Democratic party nomination for President intensifies, much attention is paid to public opinion polls. In fact, it...
Oren Levin-Waldman
Feb 14, 20203 min read
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Reforming Healthcare Requires Severing Insurance from Employment
The policy of the day appears to be Medicare for All, which is really nothing different than a single-payer system. We need a...
Oren Levin-Waldman
Feb 10, 20204 min read
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Purchasing Votes with 'Free Stuff' is Really Contempt for Democracy
We hear a lot on the campaign trail these days about programs and new investment. We also hear lip service to the meaning of democracy....
Oren Levin-Waldman
Jan 27, 20205 min read
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American Democracy is Nothing More Than a Market
Those pushing for Trump’s impeachment argue that it is essential to preserve the integrity of American democracy. By placing his own...
Oren Levin-Waldman
Dec 16, 20194 min read
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Globalism and Inequality: The Real Threats to Our Democracy
For those on the right, inequality is a nonissue because gaps between the top and the bottom only serve to incentivize those at the...
Oren Levin-Waldman
Dec 3, 20194 min read
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The Economy isn't Nearly as Strong as Some Would Have Us Believe
By certain objective measures the economy is doing well. Unemployment is low at 3.7 percent, or so that is the official unemployment...
Oren Levin-Waldman
Nov 18, 20195 min read
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The Wages of Impeachment
Despite a recent positive jobs report, a low unemployment rate, a slight growth in wages, there are still problems plaguing the U.S....
Oren Levin-Waldman
Nov 5, 20195 min read
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Only a National Primary Day will Bring Moderation to Either Party
In the presidential debates for the Democratic party nomination so far, instead of a debate, we have seen each candidate attempting to...
Oren Levin-Waldman
Oct 18, 20193 min read
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The Importance of the GM Strike: It is About the Middle Class
Last week the United Auto Workers (UAW) went out on strike against General Motors (GM), ostensibly over pay and benefits. Perhaps the...
Oren Levin-Waldman
Sep 24, 20194 min read
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Elites, the Working Class, and Willful "Maximum Feasible Misunderstanding"
In the early 1970s the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan published a book entitled Maximum Feasible Misunderstanding. He wrote about...
Oren Levin-Waldman
Sep 9, 20195 min read
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