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Poli 204 2 BB/ 2020 Concordia universityIntroduction to Canadian PoliticsProfessor Harold Chorney Course outline including essay topics list (under construction please ignore the numbers along the left margin they are a computer glitch of formatting clash between word and word press) … Continue reading →

Macro economic policy after Keynes and covid Professor Harold Chorney Harold.chorney@concordia.ca Concordia university, Montreal This course introduces students to the relevance and work of John Maynard Keynes to the solution of macroeconomic policy problems in the age of covid. Covid … Continue reading →

One of the books on my shelves of economics literature in my hallway is Protectionism by Jagdish Bhagwati who has taught at Colombia University for many years. It was published in 1989 by MIT press but most of it is … Continue reading →

The demand for money and the issue of excessive liquidity preference. Keynes developed his notion of liquidity preference as outlined in the GT (1936) building on ideas he may have developed in part through his earlier supervision of Fredrick Lavington … Continue reading →

Keynes wrote very little on Marx although at one point he dismisses the labour theory of value as ‘‘out of date controverialising‘‘ and at another refers to Marx as a lesser figure than Sylvio Gessell, the German revolutionary Minister of … Continue reading →

I don‘t like to dwell on this topic since I would have thought that after the massive deficits. following the last financial crisis, the amount of quantitative easing which is what I called greater monetization of the debt by the … Continue reading →

The Conservative party in the Canadian  House of Commons debate on Bill C 20 has raised some constructive suggestions about how to fine tune the wage subsidy and income support measures in Bill C20. But unfortunately some of their speakers … Continue reading →

The Finance Minister Bill Morneau has once again revealed the Government‘s commitment to sensible progressive economic policy from which there is additional room to continue to provide income support for both business and working people who have lost their jobs.The … Continue reading →

Its now July 6 and the U.S. is facing a major spike in Covid-19 following their premature opening of the economy. This seems likely to lead to further lockdowns in the months to come. Here in Quebec the situation is … Continue reading →