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Blog
David J. Climenhaga
| It's been almost nine months now. Surely it's time for Alberta conservatives to get up to speed on how this democracy thing works! |
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Columnists
Rick Salutin
| First it was personal debt. Then public debt too became demonized: balanced budgets and hatred of deficits became items of faith. The development of our deficit hysteria has a long history. |
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News
Patrick Clark
| David Harvey, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography, sat down with Patrick Clark to discuss the global economic crisis and need for alternatives. |
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Columnists
Linda McQuaig
| The embrace of austerity at the 2010 Toronto summit was a dramatic reversal of the stimulus spending that the world's rich nations had quite effectively adopted to counter the 2008 financial crash. |
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Blog
David J. Climenhaga
| Clearly conservatives have identified the environment as a potentially fatal weak point for their continued rule and will do their best to persuade Canadians they can be trusted on the green file. |
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Blog
David J. Climenhaga
| Apocalyptic imagery runs through Canadian conservative discourse nowadays, as conservatism is infected with the Tea Party virus that is destroying the U.S. Republican Party. |
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Columnists
Duncan Cameron
| However misguided or disproven, the doctrine of austerity prevails in Ottawa. For pursuing this austerity agenda, Europe and the U.S. are paying the price in stagnation and unemployment. |
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Blog
Andrew Jackson
| In the spirit of "know thy enemy," I recently read Hayek's The Road to Serfdom. Hayek is, of course, the totemic figure of neoliberalism who fought Keynes and Keynesian economics in the 1930s. |
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Columnists
Thomas Ponniah
| How do we reform the international political system? One new radical solution that has emerged as a response to traditional Keynesianism is a multipolar anti-imperialist framework. |
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Blog
David Macdonald
| I was fortunate enough to be able to attend Steven Keen's talk "Canada's Debt Bubble" on June 28. I immediately purchased Steven's book, Debunking Economics, and read it all weekend. |
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Blog
Andrew Jackson
| The debate over fiscal policy is often framed in the media as one between advocates of higher deficits from Keynesian-style stimulus measures and advocates of deficits through public sector austerity. |
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Blog
Marc Lee
| Down south, the Obama administration is in a dangerous game of chicken with Republican congressional leaders, who are cynically holding the U.S. economy hostage. |
