Tag: Social Security

What are the ruling ideas today? Is “College For All” among them? (Doubts-that-don’t-change-our-practices edition)

I’ve just finished an article on higher education and the liberal arts, and it’s full of hope and comes to some definite conclusions about particular ways that an education in the liberal arts is valuable. It’s out for peer review right now, which means that if the reviewer is googling phrases maybe she’ll find this,…

January 17, 2014
Transitioning to BIG+VAT

John Quiggin raises some interesting questions about the BIG+VAT in the comments to the last post: I’m unconvinced by your transition strategy, though of course the nature of a transition strategy depends on the starting point. I don’t see how a ‘small’ [UBI*], say $3000/person/r or $1 trillion per year in the US context let’s…

August 13, 2012

What are the ruling ideas today? Is “College For All” among them? (Doubts-that-don’t-change-our-practices edition)