Posts Tagged “economics”
6 questions for Richard Posner
by Luke Rodgers on March 17, 2010
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 (…)
Yochai Benkler on the End of Universal Rationality
by Luke Rodgers on May 5, 2009
How the myth of wholly self-interested individuals is holding us back
Canada: a brief history of failed GHG reduction policies
by Luke Rodgers on January 24, 2009
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 (…)
Greenspan’s mea culpa
by Luke Rodgers on December 20, 2008
Alan Greenspan reflects on how his ideological belief in the ability of markets to self-regulate has been shaken. Henry Waxman, Chairman of the Oversight [pun?] and Government Reform Committee is on a bit of a self-righteous crusade and is obviously (…)
Ontario launches anti-poverty plan amidst economic turmoil
by Luke Rodgers on December 8, 2008
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 (…)
Some worthwhile reading on the economic meltdown and what comes next
by Luke Rodgers on October 25, 2008
Christopher Hitchens for Vanity Faire: “American the Banana Republic“:
Now ask yourself another question. Has anybody resigned, from either the public or the private sectors (overlapping so lavishly as they now do)? Has anybody even offered to resign? Have you heard (…)
Some Congress members told: pass bailout bill, or martial law
by Luke Rodgers on October 6, 2008
Reason 3 not to vote for the Conservatives: who cuts literacy funding?
by Luke Rodgers on September 12, 2008
We could be doing worse, but research does show that Canada has a literacy problem.
So, if that’s the case, why would the Conservatives cut $17.7 million CDN from adult and family literacy programs? This is old news, but it made (…)
