Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Vrishti Beniwal writes about Abhijit Banerjee’s call to put concentrated wealth to better social use by taxing it. – Yutaka Dirks interviews…
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Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee discuss the utter failure of corporate-driven “market” incentives to produce fair outcomes: If it is not financial incentives,…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Mitchell Anderson writes that personal debt may be the most important hidden issue in Canada’s federal election: The reason Canada cannot act in…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Steven Strauss examines the catastrophic results of the U.S. Republicans’ obsession with handouts to the rich and austerity for everybody else. And…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Gary Mason worries that Canada has become so accustomed to prioritizing fossil fuels over the habitability of our planet as to make…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Sarmishta Subramanian writes that messages of exclusion and division tend to be amplified for political purposes rather than because they actually reflect broad…
Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week. – Dennis Gruending discusses the significance of the climate crisis in Canada’s federal election. And Sarah Jones interviews Ann Pettifor about the importance of…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Emily Stewart reports on Elizabeth Warren’s message about the need to end corruption and corporatism in order to make U.S. politics work for…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Taylor Scallon discusses how GDP numbers fail to capture the precarious circumstances facing far too many Canadians. Kerri Breen reports on Ipsos’ polling…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Ian Welsh discusses the reality as to how economic decisions are made – and how we’ve allowed corporate control to remain in…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Paul Krugman weighs in on the scam that is trickle-down economics, particularly in the form of tax-free zones which encourage domestic tax…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – John Nichols interviews Bernie Sanders about the importance of resurrecting the principle of economic rights. Gallup examines how the American public is again…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Peter Wade reports on new polling showing that American voters remain angry about a political system which benefits a privileged few at the…
Sunday Evening Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading. – Binyamin Appelbaum discusses the folly of having turned economic decision-making over to people who somehow saw income inequality and the concentration of wealth…
Saturday Morning Links
This and that for your weekend reading. – Ryan Nunn, Jimmy O’Donnell and Jay Shambaugh study how the U.S.’ labour movement has been ground down by corporate-controlled governments – and…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Alex Hemingway writes about the need for Canada’s federal election to include a discussion about democratizing ownership and control of our economy. Nicole…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Aditya Chakrabortty writes about the consequences of the UK’s choice not to fund its or social infrastructure: We are right in the…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Richard Cannings comments on the need for governments to collect a fair share of revenue from wealthy individuals and corporations. And Erin Weir…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Ben Parfitt comments on the dangers of captured regulators such as B.C.’s Oil and Gas Commission who end up serving corporate “clients”…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Andrew Jackson writes that bland centrism is no response to right-wing populism: Right-wing populism is a complex phenomenon which varies a lot by…