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  1. Understanding Brexit and the need for EU reform

    The turmoil in the wake of the United Kingdom referendum result in favour of leaving the European Union offers some important lessons with respect to the importance of institutions and how they are managed over time, as well as the ...

  2. Free trade under attack in U.S. primaries

    One of the lessons coming out of the U.S. presidential primaries is the electorate's broad rejection of free trade. On the Democratic side, Senator Bernie Sanders' popularity has in part been driven by his anti-free trade ...

  3. William Watson: Yes, technology destroys jobs. That’s the whole idea!

    I’m currently reading Robert J. Gordon’s important new book, The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War, published by Princeton University Press. (You can read the first chapter here.) Gordon, ...

  4. William Watson: The Trump-Sanders anti-trade, anti-progress alliance

    It’s been a tough call this U.S. primary season, choosing between the Republican and Democratic debates. The Republicans are livelier, in a UFC-style sense, at least, and on average the policy positions they propose seem slightly more ...

  5. How would a Bernie Sanders presidency affect Canada?

    Senator Sanders is an avowed protectionist, opposed to all future international trade deals and would renegotiate or scrap NAFTA and the Canada-U.S. FTA. ...

  6. Looking at 2016: the United States through a Canadian prism

    Political developments in the United States are usually quite important to Canadians, primarily because those developments frequently have significant economic impacts on Canada. In particular, election campaigns in the U.S. can ...

  7. Liberal victory may mean more cooperation with the U.S. but less growth

    Unlike most political events in Canada, the Liberal Party’s victory in last week’s federal election captured substantial attention in U.S. media outlets. One reason is that Justin Trudeau is young and photogenic. A second is that he is ...

  8. Leader’s economic debate: missing the forest for the trees

    In last night’s debate on the economy on issues of job creation, energy, infrastructure, immigration, housing, fiscal policy and taxation, all three party leaders wandered about essentially missing the forest for the trees. While all ...

  9. Stumped by Trump (the pros and cons of the Donald)

    I have followed U.S. politics since the late 1960s when I was a teenager in Canada. I moved to the United States as a PhD student in 1972, became a resident alien in 1977, and became a U.S. citizen in 1986. I have followed U.S. politics ...

  10. Continental Accord: North American Economic Integration

    This book describes the economic gains that may be achieved by Canada, the United States and Mexico as a consequence of the willingness of these three countries to remove, in a mutually satisfactory way, the barriers to the operation of markets that have ...