Category Archives: evidence-based policymaking

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 Sky Isn’t Falling? Dwayne Winseck Gives Us Some Much-Needed Perspective on Canada’s Media Economy

Posted on August 20, 2011 by bhaggart

I’m kind of awestruck by Dwayne Winseck’s latest post, “The Growth of the Network Media Economy in Canada, 1984-2010.” Maybe I’m reading the wrong people, but it has to be one of the most substantive blog posts I’ve ever come across. … Continue reading →

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In praise of evidence-based copyright policy

Posted on August 3, 2011 by bhaggart

When I started studying copyright policymaking several years ago, what surprised me most was the the almost complete lack of empirical evidence underlying both existing copyright law and copyright-reform proposals. I’m talking about impartial economic analyses of the effects of … Continue reading →

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