Economics
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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![]() 21st Century SocialismReinventing the Project |
Bringing together a passionate group of socialists, 21st Century Socialism participates in the emerging and critical debate concerned with reinventing and rebuilding socialism. | Henry Veltmeyer | 239 | 2011 | View |
![]() Aboriginal Measures for Economic Development |
This volume explores Indigenous measures of economic development in First Nations Atlantic Canadian communities that are of relevance for First Nations peoples. This volume illustrates the key … | Jeff Orr; Warren Weir | 232 | 2013 | View |
![]() About Canada: Poverty |
For a country as wealthy as Canada, poverty is utterly unnecessary. In About Canada: Poverty, Jim Silver illustrates that poverty is about more than a shortage of money: it is complex and … | Jim Silver | 192 | 2014 | View |
![]() About Canada: Public-Private Partnerships |
P3s fundamentally transform public infrastructure, public services, labour relations, public sectors and the everyday lives of Canadians. While contracting out services is supposed to save money, … | Heather Whiteside | 142 | 2016 | View |
![]() NEW! Academic Well-Being of Racialized Students |
Canadian universities have an ongoing history of colonialism and racism in this white-settler society. Racialized students (Indigenous, Black and students of colour), who would once have been … | Benita Bunjun | 250 | 2021 | View |
![]() An Economy of Well-BeingCommon-sense tools for building genuine wealth and happiness |
In the face of political, financial, and environmental upheaval, it’s difficult to slow down and build lives of mindfulness and joy. These things are within reach, but how can we go about … | Mark Anielski | 242 | 2018 | View |
![]() Bankrupticies & Bailouts |
Recession? Depression? Market adjustment? Billion-dollar bailouts? Just what is happening to the economy? Like the rest of the industrialized world, Canada is in the midst of an economic crisis … | Julie Guard; Wayne Antony | 168 | 2009 | View |
![]() NEW! Bent out of ShapeShame, Solidarity, and Women's Bodies at Work |
Award-winning ergonomist Karen Messing is talking with women—women who wire circuit boards, sew clothes, clean toilets, drive forklifts, care for children, serve food, run labs. What she … | Karen Messing | 276 | 2021 | View |
![]() Beyond the Periphery of the SkinRethinking, Remaking, and Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary Capitalism |
More than ever, “the body” is today at the center of radical and institutional politics. Feminist, antiracist, trans, ecological movements–all look at the body in its manifold … | Silvia Federici | 161 | 2020 | View |
![]() Big Business and Hitler |
For big business in Germany and around the world, Hitler and his National Socialist party were a welcome political development. Business was facing the Great Depression of in the 1930s, and for … | Jacques R. Pauwels | 304 | 2017 | View |
![]() Bill Gates, Pay Your Fair Share of Taxes…Like We Do! |
Bill Gates and other wealthy individuals around the world do pay taxes–but usually at rates far below what most taxpayers pay. As Warren Buffet says, his secretary pays a higher tax rate … | Brigitte Alepin | 184 | 2012 | View |
![]() BlackBerry TownHow high tech success has played out for Canada's Kitchener-Waterloo |
The smartphone was an incredibly successful Canadian invention created by a team of engineers and marketers led by Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie. But there was a third key player involved — … | Chuck Howitt | 264 | 2019 | View |
![]() Bombardier AbroadPatterns of Dispossession |
In Bombardier Abroad, Thomas examines several cases of the Canadian aerospace giant’s work in the high-speed rail sector in South Africa, China/Tibet, and Israel/Palestine and argues that … | David P. Thomas | 164 | 2018 | View |
![]() Boom, Bust and CrisisLabour, Corporate Power and Politics in Canada |
Informed by both critical animal studies and critical terrorism studies, John Sorenson analyzes ecoterrorism as a social construction. He examines how corporations that profit from animal … | John Peters | 199 | 2012 | View |
![]() NEW! Building CommunityTwelve Principles for a Healthy Future |
Strong local communities are the foundation of a healthy, participatory, and resilient society. Rather than looking to national governments, corporations, or new technologies to solve … | James S. Gruber | 354 | 2020 | View |
![]() Canada after HarperHis ideology-fuelled attack on Canadian society and values, and how we can now work to create the country we want |
Most Canadians know that Stephen Harper has had a tremendous impact on the country since becoming prime minister in 2006. But few have the in-depth knowledge of how far his transformation has … | Ed Finn | 400 | 2015 | View |