This and that for your Sunday reading. – Laird Cronk and Sussanne Skidmore offer their take as to how to ensure everybody benefits from British Columbia’s recovery plan. And Trish Hennessy discusses the need to build a more empathetic and inclusive society: COVID-19 has exposed what many of us already
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Calling the bluff on "we must compete in the global marketplace"
The soul-numbing mantra “we must compete in the global marketplace” is much heard these days. Conservative politicians and business groups toss it out tirelessly as an argument to reduce taxes, and weaken labour and environmental laws. Unfortunately, their argument is valid. Trade agreements have so reduced the ability of national
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Leo Panitch questions the “responsible capitalism” theme which is being used by Ed Miliband in lieu of a more significant alternative to unfettered market dogma: It is most unlikely that Miliband’s call for “responsible capitalism” will refresh genuine political debate let alone galvanise
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The ‘Robin-Hood Tax’ Gains Traction
In a declaration that will likely earn him the designation ‘Enemy of the Capitalist State,’ Pope Francis recently called upon the world to redistribute its wealth in order to reduce what is likely the greatest socio-economic scourge of our times, income inequality. In his address to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Stephany Griffith-Jones points out the lack of any coherent argument against a Robin Hood tax on financial transactions – and the public support when political parties actually raise it for debate: Major financial sectors such as the United States, Hong Kong and
Continue readingFrance embraces Robin Hood tax
On August 1st, France introduced its long-promised Financial Transactions Tax (FTT). Popularly referred to as a Robin Hood Tax, or Tobin Tax, the 0.2 per cent levy will apply to sales of publicly traded shares, including credit default swaps, of businesses with a market value of over €1-billion. Ten other
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