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Should Canada Raise the Minimum Wage?

February 22, 2013Jonathan McLeod

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 →

Economics Maclean's, Minimum Wage, Poverty, Stephen Gordon, Worthwhile Canadian Initiative

Meta (dis)agreement

July 9, 2012Jonathan McLeod

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 →

Bric-a-Brac, Media Blogging, Nick Rowe, Worthwhile Canadian Initiative

I’d rather you pay for the military

May 26, 2012Jonathan McLeod 2 Comments

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 →

Economics Frances Woolley, Military spending, Public goods, Worthwhile Canadian Initiative

Research vs. teaching in higher education

February 27, 2012Jonathan McLeod 4 Comments

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 →

Culture Frances Woolley, Higher Education, Worthwhile Canadian Initiative

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