Economics for Everyone

MAY 11, 2009 -- I guess it's fair to claim that Economics for Everyone is now officially a "best-seller."  In the week following my visit to Calgary in April (where I gave two talks, fabulously hosted by the Arusha Centre, Parkland Institute, and the Council of Canadians), e4e became the best-selling non-fiction book in the whole city (according to the Calgary Herald, Calgary's major daily).

Here's a scan of the Herald's best-seller list for that week.

Thanks to everyone in Calgary who made my visit a memorable, inspiring day.  Contrary to popular belief, Calgary's not at all the redneck backwater it's sometimes made out to be (after all, I came from there!).  For proof look who else is on the best-seller list: Van Jones and Judy Rebick!  The whole city's gone Bolshie, I'd say.

The negative side of my visit to Calgary: as soon as I finished my evening talk there, I was instructed (via conference call) to get my buns back to Toronto to assist with the emergency bargaining between the CAW and Chrysler Canada (which was about to break down), and so I had to hop the red-eye back to TO that very night.  Ugh.  Which meant I had to cancel my planned visit to Edmonton the very next day -- blowing off events planned by Parkland and the Alberta Federation of Labour.  I felt terrible about that turn of events.  My apologies to everyone in Edmonton who worked on the events; I have promised to go back this fall once the auto crisis is resolved one way or the other (perhaps in conjunction with the big Parkland conference November 20-21).