Hookers to be part of Italy’s GDP
Italy’s National Institute of Statistics recently announced that next year it will start including activities such as prostitution and illegal drug sales in the country’s Gross Domestic Product. And why…
Economics
Conference Board illustrates folly of conventional economic metrics
Once again conventional measurement has painted a warped view of our economic well-being. Relying principally on growth in the GDP sense, The Conference Board of Canada applauds the oil and…
Students instruct teachers to bring economics into the real world
Following the Second World War, Western nations embarked on securing the welfare state as a balance to the capitalist market economy, the result of which was the most prosperous and…
6 reasons why renewable energy is no joke
Photo: Associated Press/ Ed Andrieski Listen to the rebuttals against opponents of oil pipelines, coal, and fracking and a familiar refrain emerges – it goes something like this: It’s hypocritical…
Economics, by and for lay people
George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Second Lord of the Treasury of the United Kingdom, boasted recently about his nation’s modest economic growth. If expansion continues, Britain will soon…
The rise of Predator Economics
Anishinaabe Native American activist Winona LaDuke coined the term “Predator Economics” (youtube) Canadians are forever being informed, explicitly or implicitly, that the solution to the crisis of the day, or…
BC LNG economics don’t add up: New report
Christy Clark announces agreement to build an LNG facility at Grassy Point ( BC govt photo) The Clark government’s rosy projections of a $100 Billion “Prosperity Fund” from its proposed…
Corporatism, capitalism and real alternatives: On the power to choose our destiny
Corporatism is simply a more virulent form of capitalism – or a late stage of capitalism: it is what happens when capitalism is left unchecked, to run its own course.…
Green jobs see huge growth globally: Why is Canada missing out?
There are those like Stephen Harper who repeatedly say we must choose between economic development and sustainable development. And there are those who, concerned about the environment and the latest…
Brothers in Weyburn
Brothers restaurant owner in #Weyburn says he can't comment on TFW controversy due to employee privacy. #yqr #sask http://t.co/l6GwqSj5G5— Kim Smith (@KimSmithGlobal) April 22, 2014 Then this: #Weyburn restaurant releases…
With Duke Point incinerator, property values could go up in smoke
The following is a letter from Common Sense Canadian economic columnist and Gabriola Island resident Erik Andersen to Nanaimo city council, which is hearing arguments on a controversial, proposed waste…
What Yoko Ono Knows About Fracking
Today we are fresh off the tar soaked heels of Enbridge’s lie and spin machine in Kitimat, leading to a vote AGAINST their toxic future. In Kitimat, in a non-binding…
Canada at the bottom of barrel as oil negotiator
(Photo: Naija247 News) Read this March 31st op-ed piece in The Tyee about Canada’s poor oil negotiating skills compared Norway and the UK’s 2012 oil revenues: There is an old…
Petro-state economy costs Canada far more jobs than it creates
Canada’s economy – including its dollar – is too attached to fossil fuels, financial experts warn The current trajectories of Canada’s predominant political economies are increasingly dysfunctional, due in no…
Deconstructing the language of corporate power
Corporate power uses special nomenclature to deceive Canadians (image: Bloomberg Business Week). by Mark Taliano Sometimes, the simplest solutions are the best ones. Unfortunately, though, Canada’s extreme concentration of corporate…
Robert F. Kennedy Jr: Canada used to be our moral paradigm
“I wished were more like Canadians…until you elected Stephen Harper,” quipped Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at a recent Vancouver event. “You used to have this great law called the Fisheries…