Category: Blogposts

Photo: Jeff Wallace. Flickr Creative Commons License. It proposes, by means of old-age pensions, to help those who have reached the age of retirement to give up their jobs and thus give to the...

Photo: Elle Neill The excitement of vitamins, nutrition and metabolism permeated the environment.  – Paul D. Boyer In The Labour Market 2, we promised an explanation of the connection between employment and economic (and...

Photo Credit: Elle Neill 2015 “When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.” -Calvin Coolidge In “The Greatest Market Failure Ever: Part 1,” we examined how well the labour market...

“I became an actor by accident.” – Christopher Walken Yao Ming is 7 feet tall and weighs 141 kilos (at least during his playing days). He is China’s most famous sports hero, was the...

Photo: Elle Neill, Parc LaFontaine, Montreal, 2018. “He is happy who lives in accordance with complete virtue and is sufficiently equipped with external goods, not for some chance period but throughout a complete life.”...

Photo: Elle Neill, Rome, 2014. The Tournament Effect is the tendency over time for the gains to the winners to increase disproportionately to those of the more moderately successful. And there seems to be...

Photo: Elle Neill We wanted flying cars. Instead we got 140 characters. – Peter Thiel, Founder of Paypal The Tokyo Metro is a marvel of efficiency and practicality: beautifully clean and well-designed with excellent...

Photo: SSG Robert Stewart. Creative Commons License.  Poverty is fundamentally about a lack of cash. It’s not about stupidity. – Erin Anderssen, Globe and Mail The idea of Guaranteed Basic Income (GBI) was debated...

Photo: Elle Neill Men lose their high aspirations as they lose their intellectual tastes, because they have not time or opportunity for indulging them… – John Stuart Mill This is a rewritten version of...

Here is a speech you are unlikely to hear during Canada’s next election campaign: You know, kids are people too… they have rights. If they need a few beers or tequila shots after a...

Bubbles have quite a few things in common, but housing bubbles have a spectacular thing in common, and that is every one of them is considered unique and different. – Jeremy Grantham This post...

Photo: Elle Neill “When I was a graduate student at Harvard, I learned about showers and central heating. Ten years later, I learned about breakfast meetings. These are America’s three great contributions to civilization.”...