Interview from March 2010 issue of Haper’s with Richard Posner, judge on U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and law professor at University of Chicago, regarding his apparent 180° turn regarding laissez-faire capitalism. Six Questions for Richard Posner on Capitalism and Crisis.
Category Archives: social policy
Leveraging social norms to save the environment
February 15, 2009 – 11:25 am
The sacramento municipal utility gets you to conserve energy by comparing you to your neighbours.
Canada: a brief history of failed GHG reduction policies
January 24, 2009 – 10:04 am
Attended a talk entitled Getting Climate Policy Right yesterday, presented by Mark Jaccard and co-sponsored by University of Toronto’s School of Public Policy & Governance and the Centre for Environment. Jaccard is a leading expert, not just in Canada but internationally, on climate change policy and economic modelling, and delivered an informative, stimulating and engaging [...]
Ontario launches anti-poverty plan amidst economic turmoil
December 8, 2008 – 8:19 pm
The Ontario government has launched a comprehensive anti-poverty plan that is receing warm reception from advocates like the 25in5 Network for Poverty Reduction. The fact that this has taken place during particularly bad times for Ontario’s economy is all the more impressive, and makes me proud to be an Ontarian–not something that happens every day. [...]
Compelling graphs from the WHO Report on Social Determinants of Health
August 29, 2008 – 6:50 am
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Commission on the Social Determinants of Health has just released its final report which, though I have not read it in detail (it’s pretty long), seems to have some powerfully-worded recommendations and calls-to-action with regard to improving health outcomes across the globe. I appreciate how they don’t shy away from [...]
Is American Health Care Uniquely Inefficient?
August 28, 2008 – 8:56 am
Short answer: probably yes.
Longer answer: from the National Bureau of Economic Research, whose newsletter is alwasy full of interesting tidbits.