Category Archives: economics

Brian Mulroney, the conventional wisdom, and how yesterday’s solutions become today’s problems

Posted on August 26, 2024 by bhaggart

Yesterday’s solutions (privatization, deregulation, free trade) are causing today’s problems. Yet old policy habits die hard. When we understand this dynamic, the past decade of Canadian policymaking makes a lot more sense. Continue reading →

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Canada’s copyright reform bill: Desperately seeking economists (and evidence)

Posted on October 23, 2011 by bhaggart

Even though this is nominally a blog about copyright, and even though much of my work to date has focused has concentrated on the Canadian copyright policymaking process, I haven’t felt much of a need to post anything about the … Continue reading →

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The Great Canadian Census Debate: The Economists Call It

Posted on July 30, 2010 by bhaggart

It looks like we can call it a day on the Great Canadian Mandatory Long-Form Census Debate: the economists have weighed in, and they think the government’s wrong, wrong, wrong! Today’s Globe and Mail reports that 76 percent of economists … Continue reading →

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