We surely cannot in any sensible debate allow theory that does not work to apply to a situation in a way that would be contrary to the public interest.

There are cut-off amounts in terms of what it means, but technically every contract the federal government enters into under professional and special services is listed in that document, or summarized.

Mr. Speaker, I am delighted to see that the Leader of the Opposition has been converted to free-market theory.

According to economic theory, a properly functioning market results in appropriate price setting, based on supply and demand.

In theory, if the demand elasticity of a given product or service is significant, even at relative competitive prices, the firm in question lacks market power.

It is no coincidence that this decline in social well-being started at much the same time as the rise in governmental blind faith in the theory of trickle-down economics, so strongly espoused by " Thatcher-ism" in Britain and by " Reagan-ism" in the U.S.A. The terrifying charts in this article also follow along quite nicely with the rise in power and influence of strong, multinational megacompanies whose CEOs pay themselves obscene amounts of money while moving their manufacturing facilities around the world to whatever country happens to have the most lax human rights laws and the lowest wages.