Critical review of investment-economic performance literatures in economics and strategic management indicates that more capital investment does not seem to contribute to higher national economic growth or to higher corporate profitability. Instead, greater utilization of capital and human...

Medicaid is the need based government program that pays for much of the health care for the poor in the United States. Medicaid often ends up paying the costs of nursing home care for middle class seniors who have descended into poverty as a result of the high costs of such care. For married...

California’s Medicaid program, “Medi-Cal”, differs significantly from programs in other states. This article sets out the major distinctions between California's program and other state programs as applied to long term care for disabled seniors. It illustrates the major planning techniques...

In the United States Medicare provides near universal government sponsored health insurance for the elderly. This system has one very large gap. It does not pay for custodial care. Instead custodial or long term care is regarded as a matter of personal responsibility. Since the costs of such...

In this article we explain the rules and planning techniques relevant to obtaining government funding for the long term health care of an elderly client. This is called Medicaid Planning. Medicaid planning poses particular challenges because it involves both a federal law template and a state...

In December of 2010 Congress revived the temporarily defunct federal estate tax and the generation skipping transfer tax (GSTT) and ushered in a new era of federal wealth transfer taxation. The estate and the GST taxes had expired the previous January, making 2010 the year to die among the...

This article reports on my experience teaching Sweatshops and the Global Economy. It describes exercises in political economy for engaging students in the study of sweatshops. Also taken up are my efforts to involve students in the debate among economists about sweatshops and the antisweatshop...