Political Economy
This economic phenomenon that emerged during pandemic is at the core of the crisis that is driving us towards the abundance agenda.
What is "inflation" or the "affordability crisis"?
This type of instrument uses non-coercive tools such as public information campaigns, transparency initiatives, or moral suasion.
What are informational instruments?
These two archetypes represent opposing worldviews: one trusts human ingenuity and technology; the other emphasizes limits, restraint, and ecological boundaries.
What are Wizards and Prophets?
This form of zoning, once dominant across Canadian cities, prevents duplexes, triplexes, and fourplexes from being built on most residential land.
What is exclusionary single-detached zoning?
This professor is the Director of SEED.
Who is Jeff Wilson?
This political trend emerges when scarcity breaks the social contract, driving perceptions of elite inaction and corruption.
What is populism?
This type of bagel describes the tendency to overload policy with procedures and processes that make it inefficient and ineffective.
What is the "everything bagel"?
This sustainability-driven philosophy argues for shutting down activities such as meat production, fast fashion, and advertising to stay within planetary boundaries.
What is de-growth?
This federal environmental review process broadened scope to include social, health, climate, and Indigenous considerations but resulted in long delays and unpredictable triggers.
What is the Impact Assessment Act (IAA) or Bill C-69?
What are the names of Professor JT's young roommates?
Claire and George
This ideology rose after the 1970s affordability crisis, emphasizing deregulation, privatization, and globalized markets.
What is Neoliberalism?
This type of instrument directly operationalizes state capacity by using departments, agencies, Crown corporations, or public-private partnerships to deliver services.
What are organizational instruments?
This outcome is common when governments seek to advance sustainability by putting a tax or a price on pollution.
What are public protests?
These associations are forms of institutional capture that limit the availability of health care.
What are medical associations?
This building in the Faculty of Environment uses the most energy.
What is Ev3?
This concept describes how regulations, zoning rules, accreditation systems, and licensing boards restrict the supply of essential goods.
What is artificial scarcity?
This criterion asks whether a policy increases the amount of essential goods—such as housing units, doctors, or energy supply—beyond the existing baseline.
What is the capacity to increase supply?
Professor JT is routinely frustrated that sustainability advocates falsely accuse the following technologies of harming humanity due to their resource and energy use.
What is air conditioning, AI usage/or data centres, or air travel?
The decline of this "type" of space is commonly linked with the loneliness pandemic or poor mental health among young people?
What are "third spaces"?
This animal spotted on UW's campus recently made the news.
What is a coyote?
This post-war political order blended free trade with a strong welfare state, relying on high trust and a coalition of unions, the middle class, and technocrats.
What is "Embedded Liberalism?"
This group of "outlaws" was used as an example of why consultation leads to a scarcity of public goods especially in the case of public bathrooms.
Who are the "Gangs of Waterloo"?
This myth and movement has been de-bunked now that the earth population comfortably exceeds 8 billion is soon to be in decline.
Who are the neo-Malthusians?
This municipal fee significantly inflates the cost of housing with many arguing it should be eliminated.
What are development charges?
This land owned by the University of Waterloo will be used to address health care scarcity.
What is the research park?