Today’s corporate executives and owners seem willing to forsake history’s most successful social system for fear of the environmentalists, social justice warriors, and woke activists, greedy stakeholders all, now encircling them.
Le populisme est plausible si on le définit comme un régime politique où, chaque citoyen individuel se gouverne lui-même Cependant, il existe déjà avec le libéralisme classique.
Although the topic may appear abstract or theoretical, it has momentous practical implications.
Populism seems to have gained some ground in recent years. Yet many economists and political scientists argue that there is no such thing as “the people” except as a collection of distinct individuals, with their own preferences and values. In this publication, author Pierre Lemieux shows that this reasoning has important practical implications for democracy.
Dans un article publié récemment dans La Presse+, Stéphane Roussel de l’École nationale d’administration publique défend trois thèses bien critiquables.
The concept of socialism deserves to be rigorously defined.
A useful and intuitive definition of “economic freedom” is the freedom (absence of coercion) to buy from, or sell to, a willing counterparty. A society based on economic freedom is a free-market society. But is economic freedom economically beneficial? Is it all about money? Is it moral? Aren’t there many exceptions where government intervention is warranted? This Economic Note addresses these questions.
Op-ed published exclusively on the MEI’s website.* Alors qu’elle expliquait les « différences significatives » qui persistaient toujours entre le Canada et les États-Unis […]
International aid only has a limited impact on the fight against poverty, as opposed to trade and entrepreneurial capitalism. Meanwhile, international bureaucrats are still busy crafting new taxes for development assistance. In 2000, the United Nations Development Programme started talking about Innovative Financing for Development (IFD), a complex set of spending projects and organizations in the field of development assistance that are to be funded mostly by new taxes.
Maxime Bernier before the Albany Club.
Free trade and its benefits.
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has ordered telephone companies to sell to third-party retailers services matching the speed of their own retail Internet services on their next generation networks (NGNs). No one believes that grocery chains should be forced to share their distribution networks with smaller competitors, or that Amazon.com should be forced to make its on-line distribution system available to small bookstores. However, many believe that the government should force telephone companies to allow third-party suppliers access to their facilities.
Both the left and the right view the present economic crisis as a consequence of greed and a failure of capitalism. On the far left, for example, a spokesman for Britain’s Socialist Workers Party talked about a “crisis of capitalism.” The Front National, a far-right French political party, makes the same diagnosis and defends “a powerful state as a regulator and a referee against international financial speculation.” Is it true that the current crisis represents a fundamental challenge for capitalism?
The underground economy (or illegal economy) covers market production of goods and services, legal and illegal, which are sold or purchased illegally. It is composed of both the irregular economy, where legal goods and services are produced and exchanged under illegal conditions, and (productive) black markets, the preserve of goods and services that are illegal but satisfy all the parties involved. History presents us with a large number of prohibition and taxation events that gave rise to contraband. However, smuggling and other forms of underground markets are not only a historical phenomenon, but an everyday fixture of contemporary economies: drugs, alcohol, fuel, tobacco, etc. One should not think of the underground economy as only black markets or smuggling on irregular markets. The irregular economy mainly includes otherwise legal services sold “under the table” like labour services sold to businesses or individuals (in residential construction and renovation, for example). […] To deal with the underground economy, four public policy approaches are possible.
Publication of a Point de l’IEDM on the federal government’s earnings and spendings.
Publication of a Point de l’IEDM on the federal government’s earnings and spendings.
Publication of a Point de l’IEDM on the federal government’s earnings and spendings.
Comment les dépenses et les recettes fédérales ont-elles évolué au cours des dernières décennies? Il est important de faire le point sur cette question, ne serait-ce que pour évaluer les orientations qu'adoptera le gouvernement issu de la présente campagne électorale. L'une des conclusions qui ressort est qu'il ne semble pas y avoir de corrélation entre l'évolution des dépenses et recettes fédérales et le parti au pouvoir.
