The Progressive Economics Forum: Reflections on the Social Democratic Tradition

The Broadbent Institute and Douglas-Coldwell Foundation have just published a paper of mine as part of a larger project on social democratic renewal, The paper is mainly retrospective, and touches on social democracy as an approach to economic policy. Comments are most welcome. The link is here: http://www.broadbentinstitute.ca/reflections_on_the_social_democratic_tradition 1.0 Executive

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Is Heterodox Economic Pedagogy Flawed?

  I won’t bury the lead.  Yes I think heterodox pedagogy is critically flawed at least at the popular and undergraduate levels.  Yesterday I had the fortune of bearing witness to a exchange between a sociologist and an economist.  Both are well published and respected within their respective fields.  Predictably,

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