Archives'Cheap stuff a destabilizing force in the world,' the greenhouse gas of our troubled economy, says hot young author Laird
Gordon Laird, author of The Price of A Bargain: The Quest for Cheap and the Death of Globalization, says it's irresponsible for the federal government to suggest consumer activity will pull us out of the recession. Canada better wake up. Now Published November 16, 2009 |
The Globe and Mail calls him "one of the best and best-informed minds in the world." He's Calgary-based journalist Gordon Laird, author of the hot new book The Price of A Bargain: The Quest for Cheap and the Death of Globalization, published by McClelland & Stewart.
In it, Mr. Laird argues the current recession is part of a larger reallocation of resources, of global power, and has everything to do with our past pursuit of cheap energy, cheap...
