TONIGHT ON THE TERRORDOME: Capitalism, the Meltdown, and Somali Pirates
FM 88.5 Edmonton cjsr.com 6 pm Mountain Time Years ago when I was a university student, one of my Political Science professors quipped, “Nobody is more qualified than economists to be wrong about the economy.” My prof's comment got me thinking: if economists really do know what they're talking about, shouldn’t they all be rich? Jim Stanford has no plans to become a millionaire, but he wants you to understand why some people get and stay rich, while literally billions of others struggle--and millions fail--to escape death-by-poverty. Stanford’s an economist with one of Canada’s most prominent unions, the Canadian Auto Workers, and the author of Economics for Everyone. It’s less “Business for Dummies” than “Everything You Deserve to Know About Capitalism But Were Never Told,” and he’ll be launching it April 23 in Edmonton at an event sponsored by the Parkland Institute titled “Beyond the Meltdown: Why the Current Economic Crisis Forces Us to Re-Think Economics.” As a c...