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Archive for August, 2007

Bulk purchasing pharmaceutical drugs

The Vancouver Sun is two for two! Another front page headline, this time pressing the case for bulk purchasing of pharmaceutical drugs. Bulk purchasing is but one of many policy options for reducing the cost of pharmaceuticals, and is generally the one that is the most palatable politically as it does not overtly challenge Big [...]

Posted by Marc Lee under health care.
August 8th, 2007
Comments: 2

Just how safe is our food?

Asks the Vancouver Sun with its banner headline today. There is a general expectation among the public that someone is looking out for their interests. Concerns generally only arise when there is an e-coli or SARS-like outbreak. Not overtly mentioned in the article below (though it promises to be part one of a series) is [...]

Posted by Marc Lee under regulation, Role of government.
August 7th, 2007
Comments: none

Vive la velorution

Agnès Poirier Thursday August 2, 2007 The Guardian Le Tour is dead, long live le vélo! The French vélorution began the day after Bastille day, or day one of the vélib – short for vélo-liberté. With it, millions of Parisians have been able to forget the shame of the Tour de France and make the [...]

Posted by Andrew Jackson under environment.
August 2nd, 2007
Comments: 1

Who’s Laffing now?

In the folklore of economics, the famous Laffer curve made its first appearance in the mid-1970’s on a dinner napkin. US economist Arthur Laffer was sketching out to his dinner companions the relatively simple proposition that if taxes are raised too high, at some point revenue from taxes will actually fall. With exceptionally high taxes, [...]

Posted by Marc Lee under taxation.
August 2nd, 2007
Comments: none

A Minskian analysis of US economy and financial markets

Nouriel Roubini invokes the great, but relatively unknown, Post-Keynesian economist, Hyman Minsky, in his latest dispatch about the state of US financial markets and economy. Minsky made the point that finance and financial markets matter, and in fact can have disastrous consequences for the real economy if left unchecked, and therefore institutions like prudent regulation [...]

Posted by Marc Lee under financial markets, history of economic thought, US.
August 2nd, 2007
Comments: none

Harper’s attack on the Canadian Wheat Board

The CCPA’s Manitoba office released today an oped by Adrian Measner, the former CEO of the Canadian Wheat Board: The Harper Government and the Canadian Wheat Board By Adrian Measner When a federal government is elected there is an expectation that they will develop sound policy by consulting with both the people directly affected by [...]

Posted by Marc Lee under farming.
August 2nd, 2007
Comments: 3

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