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Shifting Populations, Shifting Economies
Statistics Canada just released its total population estimates for 2013 and the picture shows declining shares of population not just for Quebec and the Atlantic region, but also for parts of the west. While the population share of the western provinces has grown over the period 1983 to 2013, this increase is due to Alberta […]
Are we hard-wired for capitalism?
When I get back from the Canadian Economics Association meetings this evening, my dog will throw himself on me in a paroxysm of joy. But if, two minutes later, I were to try to take a bone away from him, he would bare his teeth and growl. Animals – including humans – are instinctively possessive. […]
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