The Parkland Institute

Parkland research: economics

Reports and Books

• Stabilizing Alberta’s revenues:
  A common sense approach (Feb 2013)
  tagged with: Alberta budget 2013, economics, progressive taxes, spending cuts, taxes
• Misplaced Generosity: Update 2012:
  Extraordinary profits in Alberta's oil and gas industry (Mar 2012)
  tagged with: economics, energy policy, oil companies, royalties, tarsands
• Room to Move:
  Alberta's taxes are too low (Jun 2011)
  tagged with: economics, flat tax, taxes
• Fixing What’s Broken:
  Fair and sustainable solutions to Alberta's revenue problems (Jun 2011)
  tagged with: economics, flat tax, taxes
• Unpacking Alberta’s infrastructure spending:
  Real increases have been moderate (Feb 2011)
  tagged with: Alberta budget 2011, economics, infrastructure
• Breaking the myth:
  Alberta spending is mediocre at best (Oct 2009)
  tagged with: economics, service cuts, spending priorities
• Crisis? What Crisis?:
  Public health care and affordability in Alberta (Jun 2009)
  tagged with: economics, healthcare, public spending, sustainability
• Public Service Cuts In the Northwest Territories:
  Economic Imperative or Political Choice? (May 2008)
  tagged with: economics, Northwest Territories, service cuts
• Saving for the Future:
  Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Discipline in Alberta (Apr 2008)
  tagged with: diversification, economics, spending priorities, stabilization, surpluses, taxes
• Freezing in the Dark:
  Why Canada Needs Strategic Petroleum Reserves (Jan 2008)
  tagged with: Canada, economics, energy policy, strategic petroleum reserves
• Taming the Tempest:
  An Alternate Development Strategy for Alberta (May 2007)
  tagged with: boom-and-bust cycle, development, economics, energy policy, oil royalties
• Back to Hewers of Wood and Drawers of Water:
  Energy, Trade, and the Demise of Petrochemicals in Alberta (Sep 2005)
  tagged with: Canada, development, economics, NAFTA - North American Free Trade Agreement, resources
• Alberta’s ‘good enough’ approach to fiscal management:
  Parkland Intitute's Report on Alberta's Finances 2003 (Mar 2003)
  tagged with: boom-and-bust cycle, economics, oil royalties, taxes
• Advantage for Whom?:
  Declining family incomes in a growing Alberta economy (Feb 2001)
  tagged with: Alberta advantage, economics, flat tax, spending cuts, taxes

Media items

• Fairness is found in equality, progressive taxation
  Op-eds | March 01, 2013
• A majority of Albertans support a return to progressive taxation
  For Immediate Release | February 28, 2013
• Alberta has a new export: the petroleum trap
  Op-eds | February 22, 2013
• Beyond the headlines
  Op-eds | January 29, 2013
• Alberta is Canada’s most unequal province
  For Immediate Release | January 28, 2013
• Elite’s lectures on free lunches often spiced with hypocrisy
  Op-eds | October 01, 2012
• It’s time Alberta stopped giving away its oil
  Op-eds | February 22, 2012
• New research shows infrastructure spending is not out of control
  For Immediate Release | February 23, 2011
• Breaking the myth
  For Immediate Release | October 21, 2009
• Instead of cuts, Liepert should increase health spending
  For Immediate Release | April 19, 2009
• Solution to our economic woes lies in boosting wages of workers
  Op-eds | January 25, 2009

Parkland Post stories

• Alberta’s number game:
  Despite parliamentary debate on the oil sands elsewhere, Alberta sticks to its crude 'magic number' approach
  Fall 2009 | tagged with: economics, tarsands

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