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The Road to Serfdom is a Good Book

By Matthew Lymburner — January 13th, 2008
There, I said it. Likely all who stop reading this post at the title, and who have done the same with Hayek’s book will be appalled, and will proceed to lambast me somewhere (oh wait, I’m not that important!). But it’s something that needs to …



Forces Constructing Consent for the Neoliberal Project

By David Cavett-Goodwin — January 13th, 2008
This paper will attempt to provide a more holistic set of criterion necessary for the construction of consent over neoliberalism. This concept refers to methods by which the public buy-into the neoliberal agenda. How were they convinced that neoliberalism was the most suitable method of …



It’s time to stop listening

By D. T. Cochrane — January 8th, 2008
On January 8, the Toronto Star featured on its editorial page a commentary by Joseph Stiglitz. The former chief economist of the World Bank is vaguely predicting stagflation - stagnation plus inflation - and expressing his concern about how this will affect workers and …



Peak oil?: Oil supply and accumulation

By D. T. Cochrane — January 4th, 2008
Although a peak and decline in oil production is a geological certainty, we should question whether it is actually occurring right now. The supply of oil within the global market depends on much more than the geological realities of production.



Making the Case for Corporate Social Responsibility

By David Cavett-Goodwin — December 3rd, 2007
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a major buzzword within academic circles, politics, activist groups, and the business community. There are many definitions of CSR which emphasize different areas, but the most contemporary and most applicable to the majority cases, is defined by the World Bank …



Fair Trade and Global Justice: The Case of Bananas in St. Vincent

By Anna Torgerson — November 30th, 2007
Fair trade is a response to the instability of international commodity markets and to problems of monocultural production.



Rethinking neo-liberalism

By Eliot Che — November 3rd, 2007
The term ‘neo-liberalism’ is one that is commonplace in both academic and activist circles. Understood as capitalist imperialism by some, as market-based policies by others, neo-liberalism is a contested term that continues to have exceptional significance in a period of renewed …