Economics

Economics is the social science that studies how people interact with value; in particular, the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics analyzes basic elements in the economy, including individual agents and markets, their interactions, and the outcomes of interactions. Individual agents may include, for example, households, firms, buyers, and sellers. Macroeconomics analyzes the economy as a system where production, consumption, saving, and investment interact, and factors affecting it: employment of the resources of labour, capital, and land, currency inflation, economic growth, and public policies …

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Fraser Institute · 18 July 2024 English

The federal government has set a GHG emissions reduction target of at least 40% below 2005 levels by 2030, equivalent to 38.5% below 2022 levels. This report examines proposed policies …

and jobs,” said Ross McKitrick, professor of economics at the University of Guelph, senior fellow at


Fraser Institute · 18 July 2024 English

The federal government has set a GHG emissions reduction target of at least 40% below 2005 levels by 2030, equivalent to 38.5% below 2022 levels. This report examines proposed policies …

2 Interim Progress Report Whereas mainstream economics has long argued that the most efficient climate Phased-in EV Mandate in Canada. Canadian Journal of Economics. <https://www.economics.ca/cpages/cje-journal- D. in economics from the Univer- sity of British Columbia (1996) and is a Professor of Economics at the climate change, climate policy, and environmental economics since the mid-1990s. He has served as an invited Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Public Policy


Fraser Institute · 16 July 2024 English

Poor government policy has led to a significant deterioration in Canada’s federal finances over the last decade. The introduction of new and expanded government programs has caused federal spending to …

Fraser Institute. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Macalester College in Min- nesota, and a


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 16 July 2024 English

A group of 90 World Trade Organization (WTO) members are negotiating a new global agreement on e-commerce rules at the WTO. After close to 7 years of discussions, they are …

(2024). C. Peter McColough series on international economics with Katherine Tai [Interview]. Council of Foreign org/event/c-peter-mccolough- series-international-economics-katherine-tai-0. Ungphakorn, P. (2024, January


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

Western modernity is characterized by instrumental relations between humans and nature, as well as between humans themselves, that have caused irreversible environmental and social exploitation and degradation. Many policy documents, …

literature, music, philosophy, psychology, and economics, humans have articulated uncertainty and contingency ibility can learn from environmental sciences and economics.20 In these disciplines, reversibility means This is best illustrated in discussions within economics about the conditions for successful investments


Fraser Institute · 28 June 2024 English

British Columbia'€™s Provincial Sales Tax harms business competitiveness and investment by taxing some businesses inputs, especially machinery and equipment, distorting consumer choices by taxing most goods but relatively few consumer …

University, and the London School of Economics. He was Professor of Economics at the University of Alberta member of the Executive Council of the Canadian Economics Association and the National Statistics Council


Fraser Institute · 27 June 2024 English

Over the past 15 months, Canada'€™s previously tight labour market has softened considerably. The slowdown in the youth labour market has been particularly significant. From January 2023 to May 2024, …

Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and an MSc in Economics from the University of Concepción, Chile. Ben


Fraser Institute · 25 June 2024 English

Affordable housing in cities is a major public-policy issue in Canada. Zoning and related restrictions on increased construction of multi-family housing in urban centres have been identified by the federal …

Dong, and Zhang, 2019 for a discussion of the economics of urban densification. 2 The choice of years University of British Columbia, Stockholm School of Economics, Copenhagen School of Business, and the Helsinki School of Eco- nomics. He earned his B.A. in economics from Brooklyn College, his M.A. from the University for Cul- tural Economics and is currently a member of the American and Canadian Economics Associations Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and a M.Sc. in Economics from the University of Concepcion, Chile. Ms


NSP: New Society Publishers · 25 June 2024 English

Deep polarization in our society prevents us from working collaboratively to solve the problems we face. The Solutionary Way offers a practical approach, providing clear and achievable methods to bridge …

Helena Norberg-Hodge begins her TEDx talk, The Economics of Happiness,25 with this impassioned plea: “For production are meaningful alternatives that shift the economics of agriculture away from exploitation and abuse


Mackenzie Institute · 25 June 2024 English

(Written by Kate E. Todd. Originally published here at the NATO Association of Canada, republished with permission.) Canada, as...


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