If your goal is to reduce poverty, Laval University Professor Stephen Gordon says don’t bother: The problem is that the statistical link between “earning minimum wage” and “being in a low-income household” is almost nil. Most of the people in low… Continue Reading
Over at Worthwhile Canadian Initiative, Nick Rowe writes: If Paul Krugman had written something I totally disagreed with I would have been much more likely to have written a post saying why I thought he was wrong. I have done… Continue Reading
Worthwhile Canadian Initiative’s Frances Woolley argues that defence spending is not necessarily a public good: Yet the connection between spending money on the military and providing defence against external or internal threats is something to be established with empirical evidence,… Continue Reading
I know we have a few academic-types around the League, so I thought I’d share this post by Frances Woolley, an Economics professor at Carleton University (Go Ravens!). In it, she asks, “why is research higher status than teaching?” But… Continue Reading