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Policy in Public - Work and Love in the Global Village

Work and Love in the Global Village

June 2010

Cardus Policy in Public Volume 3 Issue No. 2: Work and Love in the Global Village


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Editorial

Rational Irrationality: Rethinking the Global Economy

By Peter Stockland

Serious thinkers have advanced the argument that the economic meltdown of the past two years was evidence of something called “rational irrationality” affecting the economy. The term describes a state in which pure reason dictates that it is better to participate in self-evidently crazy decisions than to resist them, because the potential loss from failing to take the risk far outweighs the gain of safer strategies.

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Feature

International Trade: Unionism

By Ray Pennings

Two major problems face any North American conversation about trade unions. First, the very topic of unions is framed in particular ways in the North American mindset and evokes one of three responses. Some have very little time or use for unions, seeing them as limiting the free choice of workers...
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Response

International Unions: The Midwives of Rights Regimes

By Brian Dijkema

Trade unions were the midwives of two of the most important historical events in the twentieth century: the fall of communism in Poland and communism’s subsequent loss of grip on large swathes of the world, and the end of apartheid in South Africa. Both would not have occurred without Solidarnosc...
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Book Review

God and Government. Edited by Nick Spencer and Jonathan Chaplin

By Stanley Carlson-Thies

This collection of essays on “God and Government” could hardly come at a better time. As Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, says in the foreword, this is an era of a “deep crisis of faith in politics.” That’s true both in the U.K. and on this side of the Atlantic. Governments are...

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Book Review

The Armageddon Factor: The Rise of Christian Nationalism in Canada. By Marci Mcdonald

By Ray Pennings

Marci McDonald is promoted as “one of Canada’s most respected journalists” and her book as a “comprehensive look” at Christian nationalism in Canada, a movement with political influence “out of all proportion to its popular support.” Random House is a mainstream publisher; ...

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Think Tank Index

Spring 2010 Index

By Robert Joustra

The Spring 2010 Canadian Think Tank Index, featuring a compilation of pertinent research and publications from other think tanks.

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