152 Results for “CIGI Canada”
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesThe Cyclically Adjusted Budget: History and Exegesis of a Fateful Estimate
Oct 2015
This paper traces the evolution of the concept of the cyclically adjusted budget from the 1930s to the present.
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Article
Kari Polanyi Levitt
Feb 26, 2020
Some Personal Reflections on a Half Century of Friendship and Appreciation
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesLabor in the Twenty-First Century: The Top 0.1% and the Disappearing Middle-Class
Jan 2015
The ongoing explosion of the incomes of the richest households and the erosion of middle-class employment opportunities for most of the rest have become integrally related in the now-normal operation of the U.S. economy.
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Podcasts
Seth Klein: How WWII Preparation Sets an Example for Confronting Climate Change
Dec 23, 2020
Public policy researcher and writer Seth Klein discusses his new book, A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency, which looks at the example that the mobilization for World War II sets in terms of mobilizing society and resources for coping with an emergency.
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News
Pope Francis Joins Joe Stiglitz and Rob Johnson in Creating New Economic Thinking
May 13, 2019
INET Global Commission to collaborate with Pope Francis and Scholas Occurrentes on bringing the voices of young people into the economics profession
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Video
What Are the Moral Limits of Markets?
Apr 10, 2014
In recent decades, market values have crowded out non- market norms in almost every aspect of life—medicine, education, government, law, art, sports, even family life and personal relations. Without quite realizing it, we have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society. Is this where we want to be?
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Working Paper
Working paperEquality Denied: Tech and African Americans
Feb 2022
EEO-1 employment data document the vast over-representation of Asian Americans and vast under-representation of African Americans at tech companies in recent years. How did this happen?
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Article
Heading for a Crash? The Future of the Automobile Industry
Dec 9, 2020
How electric and self-driving cars could change the industry
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Article
Automotive Value Chains in a Brave New World
Jan 11, 2022
The pandemic and electrification are shaking the foundations of the auto industry
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Article
Edward Kane: Hidden Subsidies for Too Big to Fail Banks
Aug 24, 2017
An examination of some little-known ways nation states and central banks prop up megabanks
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Podcasts
China vs. West: New World Disorder
Apr 21, 2022
The Toronto Star journalist Joanna Chiu discusses her book, China Unbound: A New World Disorder, which argues that we need to go beyond the typical over-simplifications of democratic West versus autocratic China if we hope to engage China in a way that seriously addresses issues such as human rights, climate change, and economic development.
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Article
Restoring Public Good — Now and for the Future
May 5, 2021
Restoring faith in governance and public action is itself a public good that would prepare us for a whole myriad of challenges on the horizon
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Podcast
Rohinton Medhora