Author Archives: bhaggart

How vulnerable are intellectual-property provisions in trade agreements?

Posted on June 6, 2013 by bhaggart

Original Research Week continues here in the Orangespace. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about intellectual-property provisions in trade agreements. (As have a number of other people.) We’ve gotten to a point in the global economy where it almost doesn’t … Continue reading →

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The Mexican Stop ACTA movement and the politicization of Mexican copyright (or, how I spent my winter vacation)

Posted on June 5, 2013 by bhaggart

I’m at the Congress of the Humanities and the Social Sciences in Victoria, British Columbia, all this week, so now is as good a time as any to actually highlight some of the things I’ve been working on for the … Continue reading →

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On methodology, character assassination and Twitter (are the last two redundant?)

Posted on May 25, 2013 by bhaggart

Exhibit 6,028 on why overexposure to Twitter makes me want to take a shower: So on Wednesday Dwayne Winseck, a communications professor and telecoms expert at Carleton University, posted a lengthy response to a journalist’s request for a methodological clarification … Continue reading →

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Politics and Economics: The Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups of the Social Sciences

Posted on March 26, 2013 by bhaggart

Or they should be. I’ve never understood the antipathy between the two disciplines. If you’re studying economic phenomena you better have an understanding of both their mechanics (economics) and their context (politics). Anyway, I’m posting this mainly as a reminder … Continue reading →

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