The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.
John Maynard Keynes (former academic scribbler)
Dionne Pohler is an associate professor at the University of Saskatchewan Edwards School of Business and the Co-operative Retailing System Chair in Co-operative Governance at the Canadian Centre for the Study of Co-operatives and the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy. She also holds a status appointment at the University of Toronto Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources. Her research covers topics in conflict and dispute resolution, labour and employment, co-operative governance, human resource management, rural issues and rural-urban polarization, and public policy.
A Q&A with Canadian social scientist Dionne Pohler
Universities should uphold the communal norms of the scientific method.
Vaccine mandates are unreasonable and most coercive for the least powerful workers.