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A Marxist Cheer for the Last Frontier
The Last Frontier has given us gas, gold, and glory. It’s time for us to borrow some economic policy, too. Alaska, a state most Americans...
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Jan 18, 20225 min read


Stuck in the Middle Without UBI: The Canadian political system’s barriers to creating change
Canadian politics have been weird lately. Always overshadowed by the circus to the south, Canadian politics tend to be tame, even boring....
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Jan 8, 20214 min read


A Yellow Light for Amazon Go?
In December of 2016, Amazon announced a new, physical retail store in Seattle, WA to enthusiastic but limited fanfare. The store – a...
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Jun 6, 20174 min read


Universal Basic Income: The Way to Fix Welfare
In 1962, leading libertarian economist Milton Friedman published Capitalism and Freedom, a treatise on the value of free markets for a...
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Apr 17, 20176 min read


Payday, Every Day: Why the Idea of Basic Income is Reemerging Today
In the midst of global populist backlash, nostalgia has become something of a dirty word in politics. But concurrent with this rising...
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Apr 16, 20176 min read
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