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A guest blog post from Larry Kazdan, publisher of the “Modern Monetary Theory in Canada” blog:?https://mmtincanada.jimdo.com/contact/. Under legislation that came into effect in December 2015, e-petitions that garner at least 500 on-line signatures and that are sponsored by an MP can be tabled in Parliament. The federal government is then required to provide a written […]
Posted by Wenonah Bradshaw under financial markets, modern money theory, monetary policy.
February 17th, 2017
Comments: 13
A guest blog post from Mario Seccareccia, Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa The NDP went through a roller coaster ride in 2015. It would seem that the party still hasn’t fully recovered from the outcome of that election, and it will probably remain so until it elects a new leader and gets its “policy […]
Posted by Wenonah Bradshaw under macroeconomics, NDP.
December 5th, 2016
Comments: 8
The massive change dealt by Canadian voters to the seating arrangement in the House of Commons last Monday has seen the 3rd party Liberals leap to a majority government, sending the incumbent Conservatives across the aisle to the Official Opposition bench and the once-hopeful NDP back to the 3rd party seats.?? In addition to the […]
Posted by Wenonah Bradshaw under Uncategorized.
October 24th, 2015
Comments: 5
Wow! ??What an upset!?? ??A Liberal majority! ????From 35 seats to what are they projecting … 185!? If the Liberals outflanked the NDP on progressive economic policy, it was on a single issue, that of budget policy.?? With the Liberals promising three years of budget deficits to finance infrastructure spending and the NDP committing to […]
Posted by Wenonah Bradshaw under budgets, Liberal Party policy.
October 20th, 2015
Comments: 4
a€?I dona€?t read newspapers, I dona€?t watch the news.?? I figure, if something important happens, someone will tell me.a€? Justin Trudeau’s surprising confession in a 2001 Globe and Mail essay (“Something I’m Passionate About”, Feb.3) raises three questions: 1) ??does he read newspapers and watch the news now?; 2) if yes, does he read the??Report […]
Posted by Wenonah Bradshaw under Austerity, Balanced budgets, Federal elections 2015, Liberal Party policy.
October 12th, 2015
Comments: 3
In an earlier post, I sought to explain (not necessarily defend) the Mulcair teama€?s decision to run balanced budgets as an election campaign tactic to counter being branded by the Conservatives (and potentially the Liberals)as a profligate manager of the public purse. ??Whether or not this tactic is successful will ultimately reflect in the October […]
Posted by Wenonah Bradshaw under Balanced budgets, election 2015, Liberal Party policy, Mulcair, NAFTA.
October 3rd, 2015
Comments: 4
First, disclosure. ??I wear several hats. ??In addition to being a progressive economist, I am ??a member of the NDP. ??I have been since 1988. ??I will be voting for the NDP candidate in my riding and I just donated $100 to the party,with more to follow. The recent promise of four years of balanced […]
Posted by Wenonah Bradshaw under Balanced budgets.
September 19th, 2015
Comments: 11
French economist Jean Tirole has won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on industrial organization and regulation, in particular his insights into oligopolies. ??a€?Who is Jean Tirole?, ??many non-economists and some economists are asking today.?? The MIT-educated, Toulouse-based professor is a key figure in the New Industrial Organization (IO) movement.?? The movement, […]
Posted by Wenonah Bradshaw under economic models, financial regulation, history of economic thought, regulation.
October 14th, 2014
Comments: 1
A guest blog post from Louis-Philippe Rochon: GETTING YOUR ARTICLES PUBLISHED:??JOURNAL EDITORS OFFER SOME ADVICE This short note is aimed at graduate students and faculty members alike who are looking to get their papers published in academic journals, a crucial exercise for the job market, but also in getting tenure and promotion. Our advice is […]
Posted by Wenonah Bradshaw under Uncategorized.
October 7th, 2014
Comments: none
A guest blog post from Mario Seccareccia and Louis-Philippe Rochon. After learning that the Canada Revenue Agency is auditing ??the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives ??on the grounds that??it allegedly engages in politically partisan, biased and one-sided research activity, ??a number of university professors ??have drawn up an open letter asking the Minister of National […]
Posted by Wenonah Bradshaw under C. D. Howe Institute, Canadian Taxpayers Federation, Conservative government, Fraser Institute, Macdonald-Laurier Institute, petitions.
September 11th, 2014
Comments: 10
Watching Rob Ford in the recent weeks reminds me of what John Ralston Saul once wrote of Benito Mussolini and his contemporary reincarnation in Silvio Berlusconi: a€?He was the nascent modern Heroic leader. Mussolini combined the interests of corporatism with public relations and sport, while replacing public debate and citizen participation with false populism and […]
Posted by Wenonah Bradshaw under budgets, cities, democracy, progressive economic strategies.
November 28th, 2013
Comments: 1
We are on the edge of disaster without being able to situate it in the future: it is rather always already past. Maurice Blanchot. ?? Over the last month, I admittedly got so caught up in the??rhetorical swirl of the coming disaster that I woke up December 1st expecting statistical confirmation that Canada slipped into […]
Posted by Wenonah Bradshaw under Uncategorized.
December 21st, 2008
Comments: 1
The asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) debacle: who is to blame??? According to the National Post , ita€?s everybody and nobody.?? I find myself in unusual agreement.?? While I don’t??wish to see likely criminals let off the hook, a better approach out of this mess??is to change the rules of the game. Last August, the Canadian […]
Posted by Wenonah Bradshaw under asset backed commercial paper.
April 9th, 2008
Comments: 3
Ah, the confluence of the events! The tabling of a a€?prudenta€? federal budget for uncertain times, followed a week later by news of slowing economic growth. Of course, rumors of the economya€?s imminent decline may be greatly exaggerated, given Januarya€?s jobs report and trade data. But leta€?s carry forth with the economic accounts data. […]
Posted by Wenonah Bradshaw under budgets, economic growth, federal budget, fiscal policy, household debt, StatCan, livescoreทีเด็ด
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March 17th, 2008
Comments: 1