Adjusted Poverty Measures and the Distribution of Title I Aid: Does Title I Really Make the Rich States Richer?

Baker, Bruce D.; Taylor, Lori L.; Levin, Jesse; Chambers, Jay G.; Blankenship, Charles

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“…But they also provide incentives for rent-seeking behaviors. Extending the period of the monopoly and expanding the scope of patent and copyright protections lets companies collect monopoly rents far in excess of incentives for innovation and creativity (Baker 2016a). Changes in laws and court rulings since 1980 allow life forms, business methods, and software to be patented.…”

Section: Two Strands Of Research On Increasing Inequalitymentioning

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Domestic Outsourcing, Rent Seeking, and Increasing Inequality

Appelbaum

2017

Review of Radical Political Economics

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This paper argues that an important mechanism linking increasing rents and the rising earnings' inequality among workers with similar skills is the increase in domestic outsourcing and the growth of networked forms of production. This has multiplied contractual relationships and legal claims to profit and rents that reflect interfirm power relations. Firms with the greatest clout are able to claim the largest share of the rents; the weakest struggle to remain viable. JEL Classification: D3, D23, J31

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Section: Two Strands Of Research On Increasing Inequalitymentioning

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Domestic Outsourcing, Rent Seeking, and Increasing Inequality

Appelbaum

2017

Review of Radical Political Economics

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“…We use data from the 1993-1994, 1999-2000, 2003-2004, 2007-2008, and 2011-2012 cycles. Because personnel costs vary across labor markets within states, it is important when evaluating either teacher quantity measures or teacher wages to make direct comparisons only among districts facing similar personnel costs . Further, because livable wages similarly vary across labor markets, but income thresholds for determining whether families are in poverty do not, it also makes sense to compare poverty rates only across local public school districts sharing a labor market (Baker et al 2013b ). A convenient solution is to re-express per-pupil spending measures and child poverty rates for each school district in the nation relative to (as a ratio to) the average per-pupil spending and child poverty rates for all districts sharing that same labor market.…”

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The Changing Distribution of Educational Opportunities: 1993–2012

Baker

Farrie

Sciarra

2016

The Dynamics of Opportunity in America

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Over the past several decades, many states have pursued substantive changes to their state school fi nance systems. Some reforms have been stimulated by judicial pressure resulting from state constitutional challenges and others have been initiated by legislatures. But despite gains in school funding equity and adequacy made over the past few decades, in recent years we have witnessed a substantial retreat from equity and adequacy. This chapter builds on the national school funding fairness report annually published by the Education Law Center. We track school funding fairness (the relative targeting of funding to districts serving economically disadvantaged children) for all states from 1993 to 2012. This chapter explores in greater depth the consequences of school funding levels, distributions, and changes in specifi c classroom resources provided in schools. We fi nd that states and districts applying more effort-spending a greater share of their fi scal capacity on schools-generally spend more on schools, and that these higher spending levels translate into higher staffi ng levels and lower class sizes as well as more competitive teacher wages.

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“…Thus, he concludes, we should radically revise or eliminate such laws and “rights” (cf. Frase 2016 and Baker 2016).…”

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Book Review: The Quest for Prosperity: Reframing Political Economy

Myers¹,

Williford²

2019

Review of Radical Political Economics

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In The Quest for Prosperity Raphael Sassower combines elements of postmodernism, Marxian analysis, and Popperian philosophy to mount a unique, three-pronged investigation of the theoretical and practical foundations of capitalism and an inquiry into new conceptualizations of capitalism that promise novel solutions to its perennial problems; problems inherent in its foundations but perhaps most evident in implemented and ramified mainstream liberal political economy. Sassower canvasses the ideological, philosophical, and even mythological origins of the foundational concepts of capitalism from historical and systematic points of view, emphasizing capitalism's most recent twists and turns. The author attempts to reconceptualize much of political economy, with varying degrees of success, and further suggests some provisional solutions to the problems of capitalism on this newly articulated basis. Throughout, Sassower vividly illustrates how flawed ideas and dangerous assumptions perpetuate flawed and dangerous systems no matter the changes in "optics." Sassower's critique is "radical" in the sense that it draws into question the very roots of capitalist political economy: individual property rights, the efficiency of markets, the scarcity assumption, the insatiability of human acquisitiveness, and the global scalability of an economic monoculture.The book could serve as a good, mid-level text for introductory courses on the radical critique of liberal political economy or on philosophy of economics from a radical point of view. The unusual combination of often-opposing analytical orientations adds an interesting dimension lacking in many similar but more traditional texts. Sassower's ambitious and wide-ranging but generally responsible sampling of relevant ideas from philosophy, economics, and other disciplines also adds to its richness.Part I, "Assumptions Underlying Theories," offers a penetrating analysis of the conceptual bases of general capitalist political economy, covering scarcity and abundance, the state of nature and the social contract, human nature and the human condition, individual versus communal property rights, markets, and economic growth. Sassower stresses how the framing of foundational concepts affects the concepts built upon them. To take a familiar instance, a society's view of human nature (e.g., that it is essentially good, bad, or a moral blank slate), which may be set by religious or ideological factors, will largely dictate how that society organizes itself in the politico-economic sphere, determining, for example, the relative prevalence of individual versus communal property rights, biases built into regulatory frameworks, etc.

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Adjusted Poverty Measures and the Distribution of Title I Aid: Does Title I Really Make the Rich States Richer?

Cited by 14 publications

References 6 publications

Domestic Outsourcing, Rent Seeking, and Increasing Inequality

Domestic Outsourcing, Rent Seeking, and Increasing Inequality

The Changing Distribution of Educational Opportunities: 1993–2012

Book Review: The Quest for Prosperity: Reframing Political Economy

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