Are the world’s conservatives learning the right economics lesson?

What Britain’s Conservatives, U.S. Republicans, and Canada’s Tories under Pierre Poilievre fail to grasp is that governments need to recognize that ‘human beings aren’t disembodied profit maximizers.’

Is Canada’s Conservative Party learning from the empirical evidence emerging from other countries, or are Pierre Poilievre’s calls for smaller government and tax cuts for the wealthy once again an example of idealized assumptions prevailing over facts on the ground, asks Joseph Ingram. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY JOSEPH INGRAM

November 9, 2022

For the last month, the media, public policy experts, and especially United Kingdom Conservatives have, with unprecedented scorn, identified recently ousted prime minister Liz Truss as the principal cause of her own demise. While her response to what she had labelled the “abacus economics” of th...

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