Education
He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy from Princeton University.
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Thomas Ferguson
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A contributing editor for The Nation and a contributing writer to The Huffington Post, he is a frequent guest and economic commentator on numerous radio and television programs.
Politics
He is a political science professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston and a member of the advisory board for the Institute for New Economic Thinking. He is known for his investment theory of party competition. According to Noam Chomsky, Thomas Ferguson was warned while at Massachusetts Institute of Technology that his research might get him denied tenure at the Political Science Department.
In Chomsky"s account, Ferguson was told “If you ever want to get tenure in this department, keep away from anything after the New Deal. You can write all of your radical stuff up to the New Deal, but if you try and do it for the post-New Deal period, you"re never going to get tenure in this department." Although not explicitly mentioned, the research was ostensibly the investment theory of party competition.
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the Democrats