Economics for Everyone

JUNE 18 2008: Pluto Press has arranged for a Korean-language edition of Economics for Everyone to be published (by Bookie Publishing House) in the coming months.  The Korean labour movement and student movement are among the most determined and militant in the world -- I hope this work will make some contribution to their continuing activism!

JUNE 14 2008: The first launch event for Economics for Everyone was held in Toronto on June 12, and it was a roaring success.  Over 100 people attended -- about half were delegates from the just-concluded CAW convention (wearing the red 'Made in Canada Matters' t-shirts that we've all been wearing in solidarity with the GM blockade in Oshawa), the other half from the broader community.  There was a great spirit in the room.  I'm convinced that progressives from all walks of life will really get excited about the potential for economic change, if the ideas and alter

JUNE 5 2008: I want to thank the great folks at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and Raised Eyebrow (funky web design people in Vancouver) for their great work on designing this site.  They've even trained me in how to add content, which is saying something.  (My 12-year old daughter Maxine thinks I am technologically over the hill.  But even she is now impressed.)

JUNE 1 2008: Nick van Praet at the Financial Post, a very fair reporter even if he does work for a right-wing rag, penned a generous profile of yours truly as a follow-up to our recent round of major auto bargaining with the Big Three.

Here's the link:

http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=549743

Apart from a near-full-body photo (I should have jutted my chin out further, don't you think?), the most noteworthy aspects of the article were: