With the Ontario Liberals rolling out their basic income pilot project to much fanfare this week, it’s an opportune time to dive into the debates around BI once again. 1 Political aspects of unemployment A few weeks ago I attended a debate on basic income and left in Toronto hosted
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Northern Reflections: The Economics Of Coercion
The British economic historian Avner Offer believes that the gap between our economic model and our economic reality is now similar to the gap between Karl Marx’s Communism and Leonid Breshnev’s Communism. Chris Hedges reports: Our current economic model, he said, will be of little use to us in an
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