Showing posts with label Canada. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Canada. Show all posts
Thursday, January 17, 2013

Safety Nets and Canada

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Dean Dad has an interesting observation: I was reminded of that a few days ago, in a discussion with a Canadian colleague.  We have simi...
Saturday, August 6, 2011

US Credit Rating

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From Talking Points Memo : From the S&P release ... Compared with previous projections, our revised base case scenario now assumes that ...
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Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Canadian Health Care

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Aaron Carroll provides support for the Canadian Health Care system after comments by Paul Krugman . It is a pretty devastating critique (q...
Friday, June 3, 2011

RIP: Joel Rosenberg

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Noted Canadian science fiction author Joel Rosenberg has died. It is a poorer world without him.
Thursday, May 5, 2011

A False Dichotomy

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In a lot of discussions about health care systems, the Americans point to the Canadians and say "we don;t want that". Curiously, ...
Saturday, March 19, 2011

Tenure and the end of mandatory retirement (Canada edition)

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Frances Woolley has a nice post about the intersection between tenure and the lack of a mandatory retirement age in Canada. It is a differ...
Thursday, January 20, 2011

Contractually obligated to mention Canada again

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I'm as tired of it as you are, but as long reform movement advocates* keep bringing up Singapore , I feel someone has to point out that ...
Sunday, January 9, 2011

Damned Canadian Show-offs

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From the aforementioned paper by Lane Kenworthy: At the risk of repeating myself, if we want to use the experiences of other countries to ...
Friday, December 17, 2010

"What is this 'Canada' of which you speak?"

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Following up on Joseph's last post , I remember a discussion about careers I had with a group of friends including Joseph a few years ag...
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Thursday, September 2, 2010

Oh, Canada -- another interesting omission in "Clean Out Your Desk"

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We're back with our ongoing coverage of Ray Fisman's recent article in Slate which ran with the provocative tagline "Is firing...
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