Harperism (book)

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Harperism: How Stephen Harper and his think tank colleagues have transformed Canada
ISBN
9781459406636

Harperism: How Stephen Harper and his think tank colleagues have transformed Canada is a non-fiction book written by Vancouver-based Donald Gutstein, media critic and professor emeritus at Simon Fraser University's School of Communication.[1] Gutstein's work focuses on links between business, the media, and politics.[2]

Themes

Gutstein explores the relationship between business, corporations and politics.[3] In his 2009 book entitled Not a conspiracy theory : how business propaganda hijacks democracy, Gutstein traced the rise of "prolonged"

School of Public Policy, University of Calgary functioned as "a neoliberal think tank" at the university.[4][5] Gutstein cites as examples media coverage of medicare, climate change, and Canada's economic integration with the United States.[6] Gutstein points out that think tanks succeeded in establishing consensus on the benefits of "small government", "perpetual war", and a "free market and the disadvantages of "tax increases to fund social programs" which has "severely" limited "political discourse".[7]

In his chapter entitled "Convince Canadians of the importance of economic freedom," Gutstein described how neo-liberals and

libertarian, who criticized supply management in his call for economic freedom in thirteen Globe and Mail columns from c. 1997 through 2012, for an inaccurate portrayal of New Zealand's dairy industry.[4]
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Reviews

In his review published in the Canadian Journal of Communication, Brian Gorman described[7] how Gutstein calls for "a new role for government … one that doesn’t treat everything as an offshoot of the economy, but reincorporates social and political rights into its mandate while addressing the dominance of the market in social and political life."[4]: 249 

Canadian columnist and editor Andrew Coyne ridiculed Gutstein's premise that Harper and Coyne himself as a Donner Canadian Foundation board member, were part of a "vast network of free-market policy shops...The dullest commonplaces of mainstream economics are here transformed into a strange and threatening "neo-liberal" conspiracy, while pimply economists in threadbare offices are endowed with an occult power they never knew they possessed."[9]

References

  1. ^ "Donald Gutstein". Simon Fraser University. nd. Retrieved September 15, 2018.
  2. ^ "Donald Gutstein". Lorimer. nd. Retrieved September 15, 2018.
  3. ^
    OCLC 321595885
    . Catalogue key 6961325
  4. ^
    ISBN 9781459406636
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  5. ^ Sandborn, Tom (October 17, 2014). "How Canada made its shift to the right". The National Post via The Sun. Toronto. Retrieved September 15, 2018.
  6. ^ Planta, Joseph (November 20, 2009). "Donald Gutstein". The Commentary. Retrieved September 15, 2018.
  7. ^ a b Gorman, Brian (2016). "Review". Canadian Journal of Communication. 41 (1). Retrieved September 15, 2018.
  8. ISBN 9780889750197
    . Retrieved September 15, 2018.
  9. ^ Coyne, Andrew (October 20, 2014). "Coyne: Power about the only thing of consequence Harper government has achieved". O.Canada. Retrieved September 15, 2018.
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