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Role of Government
Corporate Canada and Our Fiscal Life-Jackets
Corporations will always rise and fall; they shouldn’t be given help to grab life-jackets from the rest of us on the way down.
Another Election isn’t Much More Costly than Continued Party Subsidies
Some argue that one option to the current political crisis in Ottawa, an election, should be forsworn because of the $300 million cost. But if all political party subsidies were done away with, the savings over five years would be $260-million.
Now for the Real Shock Doctrine
As we are now witnessing, Klein’s disaster capitalist complex is a mythical creation, the shock doctrine of disaster capitalism an artificial construct. Disaster capitalism never got off the ground. From Russia to Canada to Europe and the United States under Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, there isn’t a country in the world that hasn’t undergone the experience of a political takeover by the left on the wave of a crisis.
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How the Prairie Provinces Can Benefit from an Improved Trans-Pacific Partnership
The Trans-Pacific Partnership was one of the world’s most ambitious trade deals. The agreement between Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam and the United States was signed on February 4, 2016. Its goal was...
Social Conflict Abridged: From Unperceived Injuries to Claiming—What is Conflict?
Societies today are in a state of flux influenced by myriad factors—globalization versus nationalism, liberalization versus traditional values, and immigration versus closed borders. Some people perceive that an injustice has been committed against them while others...
*I, Pencil
I am a lead pencil — the ordinary wooden pencil familiar to all boys and girls and adults who can read and write. Writing is both my vocation and my avocation; that’s all I do.
The Equalization Trap
Transfer payments have unintended consequences. The case is strong for eliminating them.
The Optimum Size Of Government
If government becomes too large, it hinders economic growth.
Europe: The Third Way/ Die Neue Mitte
A speech delivered by Prime Minister Tony Blair to the Labour Party in London on June 8, 1999
*Why is New Zealand not Doing Better?
Why isn’t the New Zealand economy doing better? Why hasn’t there been a greater pay-off from the programme of economic reforms? Shouldn’t there be more gain after so much pain?
Can Small Governments Secure, Economic and Social Well-Being?
The appropriate role and size of government has been debated amongst economists since the period of classical economics and laissez-faire in the nineteenth century.
Let’s Break up the Big Cities
It sounds like heresy to say so, but maybe the consolidation of the five boroughs into the City of New York, whose 100th anniversary we celebrate this month, wasn’t such a good idea.
Lessons From Japan
Japan’s swift fall from economic glory has mystified more than a few. Looked at it from one perspective, though, it makes a lot of sense.
Commanding Heights – The Problem With Central Planning
Not that long ago, centralized economies were all the rage. Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first Prime Minister, said it best: “The idea of planning and a planned society is accepted now in varying degrees by everyone.” He then led his country through a generation of economic stagnation