Is creative destruction more helpful or harmful? Three economists discuss
Trying to capture the benefits of innovation and creative destruction while minimizing the upheaval and harms to society is a tricky balance to strike.
Trying to capture the benefits of innovation and creative destruction while minimizing the upheaval and harms to society is a tricky balance to strike.
Canadians do not want, and will not benefit from, a return to higher and more volatile inflation.
Economic and fiscal outlooks always look better down the road until they don’t. Nobody expected inflation to rise as quickly as it did.
Contrary to the idea that economics is an entirely secular Enlightenment product, religious ideas have shaped economic thinking since the beginning of modern Western economics.
Governor Tiff Macklem could decide the Bank’s mandate doesn’t go far enough.
Cryptocurrencies represent a revolutionary hedge against government fiscal policy.
Here are a few choices for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau if he wants to revamp the federal equalization program.
The Hub’s editor-at-large Sean Speer speaks to Ben Eisen, a policy expert who has written extensively about the equalization program.
In the remaining days of this campaign when policy experts and politicians assert that the government needs to intervene to correct a market failure, we shouldn’t merely accept their claims. Canadians ought to push them for evidence that the real problem is a case of the market malfunctioning and not the government short-circuiting the market’s signalling device.
Housing is scarce because our municipal political system does virtually nothing other than get in the way of development. It’s scarce because people resist any kind of change to their local neighborhoods.
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