Some people like to use consensus decision-making processes. Some like it so much that they have declared that all other decision-making techniques are oppressive. When people are first confronted with the idea of needing unanimous support to approve of decisions, hypothetical problems immediately occur to them. What if you can’t get unanimous agreement? What do… Continue reading Adventures in consensus
Author: Matt Bruenig
College price discrimination is impressively effective
The College Board has figures for the median debt levels of people graduating college broken down by their family’s income. The full graphic with spreadsheet is at the College Board site, but here are two of them: The bars on the left are for graduating students with family incomes of less than $30k. Moving right,… Continue reading College price discrimination is impressively effective
Policy Shop: How Low-Poverty Countries Do It
New post at policy shop. Excerpt: There are two conceivable paths to having a low post-T&T poverty rate, this again being the rate of most significance to people’s lived lives. A country can put a lot of effort into bringing up the market incomes of low-income people. Or it can compensate for those low market… Continue reading Policy Shop: How Low-Poverty Countries Do It
OECD poverty animation for 2010
A while ago, I had a post with an animation showing how much countries reduce their poverty rates with taxes and transfers. I have recreated that animation with a new stock of data coming from the OECD for 2010. It features 26 countries. Each dot represents a country (hover over to see which). The dots… Continue reading OECD poverty animation for 2010
What motivates the austerity crowd?
I’ve written earlier that austerity does not appear to materially benefit anyone really. This was meant to raise a challenge to the claims of some that austerity is being pushed by a class of people who stand to benefit from it. Emails and comments and various other methods of communication flooded in, but a persuasive… Continue reading What motivates the austerity crowd?