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 |
A Good WarMobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency |
Canada needs to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 50% to prevent a catastrophic 1.5 degree increase in the earth’s average temperature — assumed by many scientists to be a … | Seth Klein | 465 | 2020 | View |
A Line in the Tar SandsStruggles for Environmental Justice |
Tar sands “development” comes with an enormous environmental and human cost. But tar sands opponents—fighting a powerful international industry—are likened to terrorists; … | Joshua Kahn Russell; Stephen D'Arcy; Toban Black; Tony Weis | 390 | 2014 | 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 |
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 |
Basic Income For CanadiansFrom the Covid-19 Emergency to Financial Security for All |
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the idea of providing a basic income to everyone in Canada who needs it was already gaining broad support. Then, in response to a crisis that threatened to put … | Evelyn L. Forget | 258 | 2020 | View |
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 |
Billion Dollar Start-UpThe True Story of how a Couple of 29-Year-Olds Turned $35,000 into a $1,000,000,000 Cannabis Company |
From early roadblocks and devastating personal and financial setbacks to explosive growth and some of the biggest cannabis deals in global history, Billion Dollar Start-Up not only recounts the … | Adam Miron; Julie Beun; Sébastien St-Louis | 306 | 2021 | 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 |