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Sep. 11, 2013 / Gordon Price

What’s it worth to you: The business mind and climate change

A fascinating insight, in this New York Times piece by Eduardo Porter, into how the business world sees the cost…
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Aug. 29, 2013 / Gordon Price

The Bateman Strategy: Killing TransLink – and the regional vision

Not that I want to publicize Jordan Bateman (the local spokesman for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation) even more, since the…
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Aug. 28, 2013 / Gordon Price

Livability Lists: Vancouver No. 3 says The Economist

It’s back again: The Economist Intelligence Unit’s list of the most and least livable cities in the world.  . There’s…
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Aug. 28, 2013 / Gordon Price

The Business of Bikes: Kiwi Division

An important research report from the New Zealand Transport Agency: Research Report 530 – Reallocation of road space Published: Aug…
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Aug. 02, 2013 / Gordon Price

Netherlands Diary – 15: "Delving into the Dutch Way"

My latest Business in Vancouver column: . Delving into the Dutch Way and the Netherlands’ world-beating power of consensus-based economics…
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Aug. 01, 2013 / Gordon Price

Peak Car – 2: The Impact of Car-Sharing on your 'Money Mind'

Marc Lee writes on his Policy Note blog: The choice of owning a car works out to about $5,000 per…
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Aug. 01, 2013 / Gordon Price

Connections: "The road to hell is paved."

The provincial government has effectively announced that the Agricultural Land Reserve – the most important land-use decision in our history…
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Jul. 17, 2013 / Gordon Price

Black Swan Flotilla: Climate change and economic security

From Reuters: Nouriel Roubini, an economist and New York University professor, and Ian Bremmer, Eurasia Group president, say extreme weather…
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Jul. 09, 2013 / Gordon Price

Whatever: The Hipster Heatmap

Scot Bathgate picked this one up: Welcome to the Hipster Heatmap from Yelp.  Simply click on your favourite city located…
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Jun. 27, 2013 / Gordon Price

The (Un)economics of Motordom

From Matt Foulger:  There’s a fascinating story at Atlantic Cities right now about some very compelling new data:   An exhaustive…
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Jun. 12, 2013 / Gordon Price

Netherlands Diary 9: Science Fiction on the Quays of Rotterdam

Since 1956, with the invention of the shipping container – one of the transformative technologies of the 20th century – the…
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Jun. 12, 2013 / Gordon Price

Coal-hearted questions and the ethical dilemma of boards

What is the role of a board when their agency has a public role or responsibility, and when their actions have profound public consequences?…
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Jun. 07, 2013 / Gordon Price

Netherlands Diary 6 – Frans Timmermans' Muller Lecture

On March 25, 2013, the Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs delivered a lecture with his thoughts on history, energy, the…
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Jun. 04, 2013 / Gordon Price

Pete McMartin: 'Whistling past the graveyard'

Vancouver Sun columnist Pete McMartin is writing some provocative stuff on climate change.  Here’s a recent column based on the work…

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