Canada's labour market performed badly in the 1990s, compared both to the set of industrialized countries and to its main comparator, the United States. This has prompted numerous calls for measures that would make Canada's labour market more "flexible." Much evidence suggests, however, that...

<DIV>Economics is too important to be left to the economists, argues Jim Stanford, and this concise and readable book provides nonspecialists with all the information they need to understand how capitalism works (and how it doesn’t).<BR>             Now in its second edition, <I>Economics for...</i></div>

With contributions from the leading commentators in the field and an over-arching introduction from the editor, the concerns of this updated and revised Handbook are two-fold. Firstly, to redefine the concept of globalisation and dispel the haze that surrounds it through a systematic and...

In this chapter, Jim Stanford agrees that measures were needed to eliminate the deficit. But he argues that Paul Martin's program spending cuts were larger than necessary and caused real pain in many areas of Canadian life. He shows that a strategy in which program spending was frozen in nominal...