Robert Chernomas
Biographic Data
| ID | 704211 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Chernomas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Chernomas |
| SIGNATURE | CHERNOMAS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manitoba |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
John Loxley
In 2014, John Loxley was called as an expert witness for the plaintiffs in a legal case filed in 2007 by the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society (Caring Society) and the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) against the Government of Canada. The case alleged that the Canadian government's choice to underfund child welfare and other children's services on First Nations reserves and in the Yukon amounted to racial discrimination. Loxley's exper…
Omission and commission in the development economics of Daron Acemoglu and Esther Duflo
This article is a critical review of the work of Esther Duflo, recently awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize for economics, and of Daron Acemoglu, who like Duflo has received the John Bates Clark Medal in recognition of research in development economics. Aside from the differences in the two scholars' approaches, we argue that both downplay the role of the state and of international economic structures that influence national development, thereby obscuri…
Neoliberal Lives
Gatekeeper
The New York Times is possibly the most influential newspaper in the world. Because of this, it has become the topic of much debate about media bias, with some claiming that it is liberal and others that it is conservative. The Gatekeeper argues that this debate is misleading and that the New York Times can more accurately be characterised as supporting the interests of US corporations, which involves both liberal and conservative positions. Thro…
On Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Cambridge, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014. viii, 696 pp. $39.95 US (hardcover)
Kansas syndrome
Steven Levitt on Abortion and Crime
This article explores the work of Steven Levitt on abortion and crime as representative of a new wave of economists that are redefining the mainstream of the discipline. Levitt has moved away from formalized modeling of narrow self-interested maximization that was a hallmark of the “old” mainstream. However, he retains the “old” mainstream linchpins of a focus on the individual by abstracting from the social context, and an emphasis on the abilit…
Profit Without Accumulation
The first depression of the twenty-first century appears to contain some unusual properties in the United States. In the midst of an economy in its fourth year of oscillating between stagnation and recession, the companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index were expected to report record profits in 2011, and corporate profit as a share of the economy is at a fifty-year high. Productivity growth in the past decade, at more than 2.5 percent, …
Profits from Production and Profits from Exchange
One aspect of increased financialization in high-income industrialized countries is the growth and entrenchment of household debt. The debt borne by working-class households in Canada and the United States has risen in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. This debt has opened a channel through which value created in the non-financial sector is transferred to financial firms, thereby enhancing the profitability of the financial sector itself wh…
Containing Anxieties in Institutions or Creating Anxiety in Institutions
Penalizing patients and rewarding providers
The introduction of a comprehensive system of user charges in 1995 provided public health facilities in Vietnam, especially hospitals, with a growing source of revenue. By 1998 revenues from user charges accounted for 30% of public hospital revenues. Increasingly, provider incomes have relied on fee revenues and provision-based bonuses, the effect of which is that a poorly regulated fee-for-service system has replaced a salary system based upon a…
What Kind of Capitalism? The Revival of Class Struggle in Canada
At the end of 1995, Gordon Wilson, president of the Ontario Federation of Labor, promised an intensification of class conflict in Canada's industrial heartland: In 1996...the business community is going to discover that it cannot rip up the social fabric and expect the kind of harmony in the workplace that has evolved over the past 10 years. It will be the year when confrontation replaces cooperation and partnership is replaced by protest. There …
Penalizing patients and rewarding providers
The introduction of a comprehensive system of user charges in 1995 provided public health facilities in Vietnam, especially hospitals, with a growing source of revenue. By 1998 revenues from user charges accounted for 30% of public hospital revenues. Increasingly, provider incomes have relied on fee revenues and provision-based bonuses, the effect of which is that a poorly regulated fee-for-service system has replaced a salary system based upon a…
John Loxley
In 2014, John Loxley was called as an expert witness for the plaintiffs in a legal case filed in 2007 by the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society (Caring Society) and the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) against the Government of Canada. The case alleged that the Canadian government's choice to underfund child welfare and other children's services on First Nations reserves and in the Yukon amounted to racial discrimination. Loxley's exper…
Omission and commission in the development economics of Daron Acemoglu and Esther Duflo
This article is a critical review of the work of Esther Duflo, recently awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize for economics, and of Daron Acemoglu, who like Duflo has received the John Bates Clark Medal in recognition of research in development economics. Aside from the differences in the two scholars' approaches, we argue that both downplay the role of the state and of international economic structures that influence national development, thereby obscuri…
Kansas syndrome
Profit Without Accumulation
The first depression of the twenty-first century appears to contain some unusual properties in the United States. In the midst of an economy in its fourth year of oscillating between stagnation and recession, the companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index were expected to report record profits in 2011, and corporate profit as a share of the economy is at a fifty-year high. Productivity growth in the past decade, at more than 2.5 percent, …
Profits from Production and Profits from Exchange
One aspect of increased financialization in high-income industrialized countries is the growth and entrenchment of household debt. The debt borne by working-class households in Canada and the United States has risen in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. This debt has opened a channel through which value created in the non-financial sector is transferred to financial firms, thereby enhancing the profitability of the financial sector itself wh…
Containing Anxieties in Institutions or Creating Anxiety in Institutions
What Kind of Capitalism? The Revival of Class Struggle in Canada
At the end of 1995, Gordon Wilson, president of the Ontario Federation of Labor, promised an intensification of class conflict in Canada's industrial heartland: In 1996...the business community is going to discover that it cannot rip up the social fabric and expect the kind of harmony in the workplace that has evolved over the past 10 years. It will be the year when confrontation replaces cooperation and partnership is replaced by protest. There …
Penalizing patients and rewarding providers
The introduction of a comprehensive system of user charges in 1995 provided public health facilities in Vietnam, especially hospitals, with a growing source of revenue. By 1998 revenues from user charges accounted for 30% of public hospital revenues. Increasingly, provider incomes have relied on fee revenues and provision-based bonuses, the effect of which is that a poorly regulated fee-for-service system has replaced a salary system based upon a…
Containing Anxieties in Institutions or Creating Anxiety in Institutions
Profit Without Accumulation
The first depression of the twenty-first century appears to contain some unusual properties in the United States. In the midst of an economy in its fourth year of oscillating between stagnation and recession, the companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index were expected to report record profits in 2011, and corporate profit as a share of the economy is at a fifty-year high. Productivity growth in the past decade, at more than 2.5 percent, …
Profits from Production and Profits from Exchange
One aspect of increased financialization in high-income industrialized countries is the growth and entrenchment of household debt. The debt borne by working-class households in Canada and the United States has risen in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. This debt has opened a channel through which value created in the non-financial sector is transferred to financial firms, thereby enhancing the profitability of the financial sector itself wh…
Steven Levitt on Abortion and Crime
This article explores the work of Steven Levitt on abortion and crime as representative of a new wave of economists that are redefining the mainstream of the discipline. Levitt has moved away from formalized modeling of narrow self-interested maximization that was a hallmark of the “old” mainstream. However, he retains the “old” mainstream linchpins of a focus on the individual by abstracting from the social context, and an emphasis on the abilit…
On Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Cambridge, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014. viii, 696 pp. $39.95 US (hardcover)
Kansas syndrome
Gatekeeper
The New York Times is possibly the most influential newspaper in the world. Because of this, it has become the topic of much debate about media bias, with some claiming that it is liberal and others that it is conservative. The Gatekeeper argues that this debate is misleading and that the New York Times can more accurately be characterised as supporting the interests of US corporations, which involves both liberal and conservative positions. Thro…
Omission and commission in the development economics of Daron Acemoglu and Esther Duflo
This article is a critical review of the work of Esther Duflo, recently awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize for economics, and of Daron Acemoglu, who like Duflo has received the John Bates Clark Medal in recognition of research in development economics. Aside from the differences in the two scholars' approaches, we argue that both downplay the role of the state and of international economic structures that influence national development, thereby obscuri…
Neoliberal Lives
John Loxley
In 2014, John Loxley was called as an expert witness for the plaintiffs in a legal case filed in 2007 by the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society (Caring Society) and the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) against the Government of Canada. The case alleged that the Canadian government's choice to underfund child welfare and other children's services on First Nations reserves and in the Yukon amounted to racial discrimination. Loxley's exper…
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