Chris Abbott
@c-abbs.bsky.social
Economist at UFCW Canada. Political economy, canadian & comparative politics, labour in the food system.
Good @onesandtooze.bsky.social episode on Canada that flagged key aspects of Canada's political economy: importance of housing market, economic geography, continentalism, federalism. @adamtooze.bsky.social did make one mistake I've also made before regarding the oil and gas sector...
Finally. The obsession with internal trade barriers as the root of Canada’s economic woes—esp. productivity stagnation—is misleading. Now, if everyone could shift their attention to some key research by Loertscher & @paupujolas.bsky.social in the Canadian Journal of Economics...
CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives@policyalternatives.ca · last yr.New from @ccpa-tirp.bsky.social: Canadian politicians are focused on removing "internal trade barriers" to respond to the Trump threat. There's just one problem—there's very little evidence of actual widespread barriers to interprovincial trade. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
This is what happens when you ask me to help sanewash the Trump tariffs.
Easily the most sensible, if brief, take on Trudeau’s legacy amid a flood of uninformed opinions.
Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦@emmettmacfarlane.com · 2y agoI think in a lot of ways the Trudeau Liberals mirrored the Harper Conservatives in that (contrary to Andrew's claim here) the government entered in 2015 with plenty of substance and got quite a few things done, but this waned dramatically over time, and its final two years was awash in listlessness.
New paper out at Socio-Economic Review with Kyle Hanniman, Elizabeth Goodyear Grant, Chris Abbbott and @jsmatthews99.bsky.social, presented long ago at @sasemeeting.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/ser/... On mass attitudes and central bank endorsements of fiscal policy in Canada and the USA A thread:
When partisanship and technocratic credibility collide: mass attitudes and central bank endorsements of fiscal policy in Canada and the USA
Abstract. Developments over the past decade have made it increasingly difficult for central banks to achieve their macroeconomic objectives without the hel
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