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Claim Game

The high stakes of fraudulent identity

But Blind They Were

The fallacy of an empty continent

The Canadian Conversation

A Polish journalist’s perspective on residential schools

Lars Osberg

Lars Osberg is University Research Professor in the Economics Department of Dalhousie University in Halifax.

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What Causes Social Inequality?

From Scandinavia to the Anglosphere, it may come down to choice. April 2011
In Power and Inequality: A Comparative Introduction, Gregg Olsen examines three “Nordic” countries—Finland, Norway and Sweden—and three “Anglo” countries—Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States—through the lens of social inequality. Readers with an allergy to footnotes or definitions or statistics should be warned from the start: this book is not an…