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September 14, 2019

John Ivison:Timely book warns that Canada’s democracy is threatened by political abuse

Dr John Hollins, past  CACOR Chair Board of Directors, posted this book review from the Ottawa Citizen. Political power is no longer located in Parliament, political parties, Cabinet or the bureaucracy. It is  held by the PM, his advisers, lobbyists and the rich John Ivison, Ottawa Citizen, September 3, 2019 Just as the Trojans learned […]

Article posted by Art Hunter / Articles, Book Reviews, CACOR Writers / Energy, politics Leave a Comment

May 4, 2019

What is government good at? A Canadian Answer

Dr. John Hollins, past Chair CACOR  reviews the book: What is government good at? A Canadian Answer [1] by Donald Savoie [2] Donald Savoie argues that politicians and the top layer of public servants are good at: o   managing an organisation dominated by the prime minister of the day: responding to demands from the prime […]

Article posted by Art Hunter / Articles, Book Reviews, CACOR Writers / politics Leave a Comment

November 2, 2018

The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect

Robert Hoffman, CACOR member, book review. Pearl, Judea and Mackenzie, Dana. (2018). The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect. New York: Basic Books. (kindle edition) The Book of Why, written by UCLA professor of computer science Judea Pearl and science writer Dana Mackenzie, describe in non-mathematical language the intellectual content of […]

Article posted by Art Hunter / Book Reviews, CACOR Writers / Complexity, Digital Environment, Science, technology Leave a Comment

July 6, 2018

Has the Horse Bolted with the Internet of All Things?

By Lalith Gunaratne, CACOR member. I am disappointed and dismayed of our modern world after reading two interesting and scary books back to back – Yuval Noah Hariri’s Homo Deus and Cathy O’Neil’s Weapons of Math Destruction. Is this where we have come to after all these years of scientific and technological development?. Greed and expedience seems to thrive […]

Article posted by Art Hunter / Articles, Book Reviews, CACOR Writers / Complexity, Political-Economy, technology, values Leave a Comment

February 3, 2018

Reinventing Prosperity by Graeme Maxton

John Hollins, Chair CACOR Board of Directors Book Review. Reinventing Prosperity by Graeme Maxton and Jurgen Randers Greystone / David Suzuki Foundation, 2016 A review “For most of the last thirty years, unemployment has been rising in the rich world, while the gap between rich and poor has been widening. This is not what conventional […]

Article posted by Art Hunter / Articles, Book Reviews, Books & Reviews, CACOR Writers / Adaptability, Economics, The Limits to Growth, values Leave a Comment

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