Herbert Grubel

Op-ed Pieces in Mass Media

1.     “The absence of incentives is medicare’s fundamental flaw”, Medical Post, September 1, 1992  Click here

2.     “New health care technology must be shared”, Medical Post, September 22, 1992    Click here

3.     “Protect us from big brotherhood”, Vancouver Sun, November 19, 1992    Click here

4.     “The trouble with no-cost medicine”, Family Practice, November 13, 1995    Click here

5.      "From Burnaby Mountain to Parliament Hill.. and back again", Simon Fraser News, September 18, 1997 Click here    Click here for page 2

6.      "Auch am Arbeitsmarkt gibt es keine Kosten der Freiheit", Handelsblatt, July 2, 1998    

7.      "Paul Martin did not plug the brain drain", Ottawa Citizen, March 12, 1998     Click here

8.      "Let's avoid another economic 'told you so'", Ottawa Citizen, May 21, 1998    

9.      "Euro's benefits will far outweigh its costs", Financial Post, Dec. 16, 1998     Click here

10. "Cut the capital gains tax", Financial Post, January 26, 1999    Click here

11.  "Give budget surpluses back to the taxpayers", Financial Post, February 9, 1999 (M. Walker, co-author) Click here

12. "Life with the Amero", Financial Post, April 14, 1999     Click here

13.  “Facts and figures don’t support Canada’s capital gains tax”, Financial Post, Dec. 9, 1999  Click here

14.  "The US dollar makes sense for us", Globe and Mail, Jan 28, 2000     Click here

15.  "Capital gains tax must go", Financial Post, May 30, 2000     Click here

16.  "Air Canada pilots and regulation’s failure”, Financial Post, June 27, 2000. C15     Click here

17.  “Let’s drop Keynesian relic”, Financial Post, July 10, 2000, C11     Click here

18.  "It is time logs had a free market", Financial Post, April 5, 2001   Click here

19.  "Marketize BC lumber", Financial Post, August 22, 2001     Click here   Click here for page 2

20.  "Dollar needs big change", Financial Post, July 11, 2002     Click here

21.  “It is time to create the 'amero'", Financial Post, August 9, 2002     Click here

22.  “Whiplash, a moral hazard”, (Murray Allen, co-author), BC Medical Journal, 44, 8, October 2002, 428-29 Click here  Click here for page 2

23.  “Regulators vs. Adam Smith”, The Wall Street Journal, October 4, 2002     Click here

24.  “On our way to a 50-cent dollar”, Financial Post, February 15, 2003    Click here

25.  “Business deserves a monetary union”, Financial Post, January 7, 2004, FP13     Click here

26.  “The Case against Proportional Representation”, Toronto Star, Nov. 15, 2004     Click here

27.  “Wirtschaftsflop:  The Rise and Fall of German Growth”, Financial Post, July 9, 2004     Click here

28.  “Scrap Equalization Payments”, Financial Post, June 9, 2005     Click here

29.  “Flat Tax – forget it”, Financial Post, August 11, 2005, FP17     Click here  Click here for page 2