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Chris Abbott @c-abbs.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Good @onesandtooze.bsky.social episode on Canada that flagged key aspects of Canada's political economy: importance of housing market, economic geography, continentalism, federalism. @adamtooze.bsky.social did make one mistake I've also made before regarding the oil and gas sector...

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Chris Abbott @c-abbs.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Finally. The obsession with internal trade barriers as the root of Canada’s economic woes—esp. productivity stagnation—is misleading. Now, if everyone could shift their attention to some key research by Loertscher & @paupujolas.bsky.social in the Canadian Journal of Economics...

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

This is what happens when you ask me to help sanewash the Trump tariffs.

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Chris Abbott @c-abbs.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Easily the most sensible, if brief, take on Trudeau’s legacy amid a flood of uninformed opinions.

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Olivier Jacques @olijacques.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

New paper out at Socio-Economic Review with Kyle Hanniman, Elizabeth Goodyear Grant, Chris Abbbott and @jsmatthews99.bsky.social, presented long ago at @sasemeeting.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/ser/... On mass attitudes and central bank endorsements of fiscal policy in Canada and the USA A thread:

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When partisanship and technocratic credibility collide: mass attitudes and central bank endorsements of fiscal policy in Canada and the USA

Abstract. Developments over the past decade have made it increasingly difficult for central banks to achieve their macroeconomic objectives without the hel

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