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Trade policy as social engineering—the downside of more NAFTA vetoes
By William Watson | August 18, 2017
Do students value university? Tuition speaks louder than survey responses
By William Watson | August 11, 2017
Let’s consider a unilateral ceasefire on aircraft subsidies
By William Watson | August 4, 2017
Inflation ‘improves’ by going up?
By William Watson | July 28, 2017
Why Canada has an income tax—the ‘conscription of wealth’
By William Watson | July 27, 2017
Jobless in Seattle
By William Watson | July 21, 2017
Canada’s 21st century wage miracle
By William Watson | July 14, 2017
Blip or trend? When does the short run become the long run?
By William Watson | July 7, 2017
Happy 150th to one of the world's most demonstrably successful societies
By William Watson | June 30, 2017
Participation rates—good news, bad news or neutral news?
By William Watson | June 16, 2017
William Watson: The good news about aging—seeing the past more clearly
By William Watson | June 9, 2017
William Watson: How to fix an externality—handle with care
By William Watson | June 2, 2017
William Watson: Canada's surprising comparative advantage—selling sand to the Sahara
By William Watson | May 26, 2017
William Watson: Pricing pot? Let the market decide, dude!
By William Watson | May 19, 2017
William Watson: Can journalists be taught economics? We'll find out
By William Watson | May 12, 2017
William Watson: Straight talk on job losses in Winnipeg
By William Watson | April 28, 2017
William Watson: the way we were—a small government taxing consumption
By William Watson | April 18, 2017
Canada’s federal income tax has grown too costly and complex
By William Watson | April 10, 2017
William Watson: My favourite finance minister of them all
By William Watson | April 10, 2017
Canada’s income tax at 100—milestone or tombstone?
By William Watson | April 6, 2017
The History and Development of Canada's Personal Income Tax: Zero to 50 in 100 Years
By William Watson, Jason Clemens | April 6, 2017
William Watson: Trying to digest 159 ways to improve a country
By William Watson | March 24, 2017
William Watson: You can’t always get what you want—so sad!
By William Watson | March 17, 2017
William Watson: Among the ecofiscalists
By William Watson | March 10, 2017
William Watson: Searching for small catastrophes
By William Watson | March 3, 2017
William Watson: This dragon/shark doesn’t have enough fire/teeth
By William Watson | February 24, 2017
William Watson: Was Stuart McLean, national treasure, also a public good?
By William Watson | February 17, 2017
William Watson: The growth advisory council—folly and presumption from the nicest people
By William Watson | February 10, 2017
William Watson: The last protectionist businessman-president also did walls—it ended badly
By William Watson | January 27, 2017
William Watson: ‘I, Ballpoint’ misses the point—at least a little
By William Watson | January 20, 2017
William Watson: Taking the gambling out of insurance won’t work
By William Watson | January 13, 2017
William Watson: Another area where we need to be more competitive with the U.S.—giving
By William Watson | December 19, 2016
William Watson: One asset value that’s falling fast—taxi licences
By William Watson | December 9, 2016
William Watson: There’s no such thing as a free ‘saved job.’ Or is there?
By William Watson | December 2, 2016
William Watson: Tolls for Toronto highways are a great idea
By William Watson | November 25, 2016
William Watson: The prime minister should stop telling businesses where to spend their money
By William Watson | November 18, 2016
William Watson: Trimming the rigging on the American ship of state
By William Watson | November 11, 2016
William Watson: What’s new should be what’s news in a fiscal update
By William Watson | November 4, 2016
William Watson: War with Wallonia averted! National treatment survives! (maybe)
By William Watson | October 28, 2016
William Watson: The OECD’s surprising statistics on social spending
By William Watson | October 21, 2016
William Watson: Nudge, nudge, KABOOM! Behavioural economics comes to Canadian policy
By William Watson | October 7, 2016
William Watson: Montreal tests the value of infrastructure—the hard way
By William Watson | September 30, 2016
William Watson: Baby, she was born to ride—and that’s just fine
By William Watson | September 23, 2016
William Watson: The bank will set you free?
By William Watson | September 16, 2016
William Watson: The main benefit of reading the classics—humility
By William Watson | September 9, 2016
What are universities worth? 
By William Watson | September 2, 2016
Taxes are way up since 1961—are public services?
By William Watson | August 26, 2016
But how exactly do governments become trust-boosters?
By William Watson | August 19, 2016
Even a sweetly-behaved maple syrup cartel is a big policy error
By William Watson | August 12, 2016
William Watson: The book on happiness... all the way back to 1776
By William Watson | July 15, 2016