I realize that I’m a healthcare policy nerd and that most folks find this stuff boring and impenetrable. That’s one reason why organizations like Fractured Atlas are needed; we deal with the esoteric minutia so you don’t have to.
Still, it never hurts to educate yourself, especially with an election coming up. The [...]
My comrade-in-arms Paul Nagle has just published a paper on the economics of live/work space for artists in cities. Room for Creativity: The Role of Affordable Artists’ Live/Work Space in the New Economy is a short and accessible version of his much longer and denser thesis on the same subject. If you’re interested [...]
It’s not often that events in the auto industry have a major long-term impact on the arts community. However it’s worth taking note of the groundbreaking new contract that GM just signed with the UAW. As this morning’s Wall Street Journal reports:
The labor agreement reached by General Motors Corp. is the most striking [...]
If you’ve got even the most passing interest in urban planning or cultural policy, then you ought to familiarize yourself with the work of Charles Landry. (Meanwhile, if you’ve got more than a passing interest, odds are you’re already familiar with Landry.) The father of the “Creative City” concept was interviewed recently in [...]
The MIT economist, Jonathan Gruber, who consulted on the creation of the Massachusetts healthcare reform plan and who is now working with California on their plan has released a nationalized version of the Massachusetts model.
I’m very impressed with what they’ve been able to pull off politically in Massachusetts, but I do have some serious concerns: [...]
There’s little question in my mind that the maelstrom of health care reform proposals we’re suddenly seeing from every corner of the political and business landscape is starting to converge on a two key concepts: 1) universal coverage backed by individual mandates and 2) some kind of public/private hybrid approach that allows the mighty insurance [...]
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