Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.
- Bruce Campbell comments on the link between rising inequality and declining democracy, while Rachel Mendleson notes that the erosion of workplace democracy and the labour movement is a key factor in both.
- Meanwhile, Erin points out that while decades of corporatist policy haven't done anything to improve productivity, the greater consumer demand from a better distribution of wealth might well help matters.
- pogge rightly questions why the CBC continues to trumpet Fraser Institute propaganda as newsworthy. But I wonder whether the answer is simply to turn the apparent incentives on their head: if the media indeed finds pre-packaged news irresistible and doesn't bother to present competing views, maybe we should start putting our critiques of astroturf organizations into a similarly media-friendly form to be similarly reported without question.
- Finally, is there any surprise that in the midst of constant admonitions that we need to harmonize (read: torch) laws between provinces and countries to the greatest extent possible, the one time our regulators want to strike out on their own is to increase the volatility of casino capitalism when the U.S. is looking to install some meaningful "circuit breakers"?
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