Tyler Cowen lays down a few criteria to get past the problem of political bias. Any candidate for the GOAT prize must be original, of great historical importance, a carrier of essential ideas, and know lots of micro and macro theory and empirics.
To start the new year, Hub readers discussed many topics over the past week, including a secret report documented by a British Ambassador and what it reveals about Canada, the country’s fiscal outlook, the Canadian legacy media and the Online News Act, Saskatchewan’s cancelling of the carbon tax, and the state of the country’s stagnant economy and finances.
This episode of In Coversation with Amanda Lang features discussion on the big labour market trends in Canada as we enter 2024 including the rise of “gig work”, the growth in the federal government’s employment footprint, and whether Canadian workers will face pressure to return to the office more regularly in the coming year.
This week’s Hub Roundtable discusses Claudine Gay’s resignation as the president of Harvard and its implications for universities across North America. We also discuss new research on Canada’s economic underperformance relative to its OECD peers and what is needed to pull the country out of a sense of complacency.
Books tackling a range of issues from the abandonment of meritocracy, the decline of the West, and the complicated life and legacy of George Orwell all had profound things to say, with lessons for our current unsettled moment.
Thirty years ago this month, a controversial economics paper was released that challenged one of the core traditions of the Christmas season: the practice of gift giving. Is it a purely a utilitarian exercise that can be weighed up in economic terms to determine if presents are actually worth the money, time, and effort?
On November 21, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland released the government’s Fall Economic Statement which included a combination of revised economic and fiscal projections as well as new measures targeting housing, climate change, and journalism.
With the next federal election no more than two years away, housing has emerged as one of the top issues for Canadian voters and the Liberals and Conservatives are now…
After nearly a decade on their back foot, the oilsands have reason for optimism. Lots of people still love to hate them, but they’re starting to rack up some wins.
The ongoing Israel-Hamas war was still the main focus at The Hub this week, with Hub writers taking the media to task, exploring the reaction in our country to the war and analyzing the best path forward for Canada on foreign policy.
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