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I plan to revive True Dough and carry on with it when I relocate to DC, USA (!) for an internship. I’m not sure about the direction this blo...

In today’s Toronto Star , Ross Finnie and Alex Usher propose a voucher program to promote quality graduate research. I haven’t formed an opi...

I wish I would have heard the latest Econtalk podcast , “Richard Epstein on Property Rights and Drug Patents,” before writing my recent post...

James Townsend (University of Winnipeg) has a paper published in the February issue of The Canadian Journal of Economics (subscription requ...

I've learned a lot from The Vancouver Housing Blog since I discovered it in December, so I'm sad to see that VHB is exiting the blog...

A couple months ago I was debating whether to ask Prof Greg Mankiw about his thoughts on cross-country growth regressions, but I was too shy...

I hesitated to blog about Gapminder earlier when it occurred to me that many of you might already know about it, but I was shocked (shocked!...

What happens when True Dough is confined to a small space? She writes a lot, she copies and pastes a lot, and she evidently refers to hersel...

Terence Corcoran doesn’t believe in Pigovian taxes. In his latest anti-Pigovian tax article he reasons that decreased smoking rates don'...

Mark Thoma at Economist’s View has a cool new idea. He writes: I am going to try something. It is based upon The Economist's decision t...

The quality of Canada’s new and existing jobs is slipping, concludes CIBC economist Benjamin Tal after calculating the latest Job Quality ...

In a paper published by Statistics Canada, Garnett Picot, Feng Hou, and Simon Coulombe suggest that Canada’s policy on points-based immigran...

Here’s a fun map from Carl Størmer that compares the GDP of U.S. states to other nations. (Click for a larger view) From what I can tell, ...

What are the chances that Canada will export water to the U.S. in the foreseeable future? Slim, says the Canadian government . But maybe the...

Don Boudreaux over at Café Hayek pointed to an article by Gary Becker and Richard Posner ($) published in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal . ...

A fire might have been ignited under western Canada when policy makers implemented a business friendly tax structure, but positive investor ...

I must be in a strange mood, because I nearly busted a rib laughing at this Onion piece. And yet,... should I have? h/t The Healthcare Eco...

From "Migrant Power ," The Economist , Jan. 16 As migration changes, shorter-term movements will bring migrants home with wealth a...

"Numbers by painting," Forbes, Jan 14 2007 : What if you could auction off a logo at Christie's or Sotheby's (nyse: BID -...

Abstract from The Impact of Big-Box Stores on Retail Food Prices and the Consumer Price Index , by Ephraim Leibtag (Economic Research Report...

While the contraction of the stock market due to mergers and acquisitions (M&A) isn’t an entirely new phenomenon, it’ll be interesting t...

Neil Reynolds takes a look at the role that the poor play in the hidden economy. The Globe and Mail (Jan. 5) ($): How do poor families spen...

A couple of posts back I asked why Canada’s construction sector is said to be more productive than the U.S. sector, despite having smaller ...

December saw 62,000 new jobs, taking the jobless rate to a 30-year low. Ahem. Who was it that defied just about every analyst that said the ...

Why would Canada's construction sector be more productive than the U.S. sector despite having smaller establishment sizes (ie. fewer emp...

Canadian policy-makers will soon be reviewing the subject of taxes on non-residents and citizenship options. Unlike in many countries, in Ca...

Tim Haab points to an interesting article : Researchers at the University of Washington say all that holiday baking and eating has an envir...

I'm off for an outdoor adventure here... If you guessed that there will be no computers, you're right. But I'll be back and blog...

Health Economics has published a paper by Antonio García-ferrer, Aránzazu De Juan, and Pilar Poncela titled, "The relationship between...