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Vaccine demographics and health policy
I am sitting on our living room sofa that dates from the 1940s and belonged originally to my paternal grandmother listening to the CBC explore the issue of the vaccine rollout and who are perplexed by the differences in the … Continue reading
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Domestic Vaccine Production Long Overdue But Very Welcome
It has taken some time but finally the Canadian Federal government has negotiated letters of understanding with 2 major vaccine production companies Precision Nano systems and Novavax to establish a production facility in Vancouver and one in Montreal for their … Continue reading
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Poli 610 AA 2020 Prof. H.Chorney take home test Dec.2 2020
Due back Friday December11 ,2020 Part one: write a paragraph or two on Five of the following: 30 %.5×6 % 1. Says law 2. Classical laissez-faire 3. Michal Kalecki. 4 the multiplier 5.Keynes and Bloomsbury 6. monetary policy and low … Continue reading
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Larry Summers is correct about the needed stimulus and accurate about making it clear that in terms of the low interest rate that the Fed and other national western central banks have posted there is no reason to worry about the deficit or debt and its impact upon the exchange rate of the US dollar nor inflation.
Former American treasury secretary and former Harvard University PresidentLarry Summers has reached some very progressive conclusions about American stimulus and how to finance it. He appeared this Sunday on MSNBC‘s Fareed Zakaria and clearly and forcefully explained what economists like … Continue reading
Deficit and debt worries exaggerated by parliamentary budget officer
Once again we can see private sector and some public sector economists over estimating or historically exaggerating the risk factor in the large debts growing out of the covid-19 crisis. The Government very wisely and the Bank of Canada with … Continue reading
Poli 204 course outline fall 2020
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
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Poli 610 course outline fall 2020
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
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