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The explosion of foreign investor lawsuits

The explosion of foreign investor lawsuits

From: Sold Down the Yangtze

overview of the history of foreign investor lawsuits and how FIPA has accelerated them 9 $0.90 Add
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The Export and Import Permits Act

The Export and Import Permits Act

From: Canada's Laws on Import and Export

Discussion of the strategic importance of the Export and Import Permits Act and how it furthers trade policy. 16 $1.60 Add
The Fair Trade Handbook

The Fair Trade Handbook

Building a Better World, Together

Framed within the common goal of advancing trade justice and South-North solidarity, The Fair Trade Handbook presents a broad interpretation of fair trade and a wide-ranging dialogue between … 240 View
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The Fall

The Fall

From: BlackBerry Town

Examines BlackBerry’s precipitous fall, which evenutally resulted in Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie’s exit from the company. 17 $1.70 Add
The Farmer's Office
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The Farmer’s Office

Second Edition

The Farmer’s Office, Second Edition is the complete guide to starting, managing, and growing an agricultural or farm business. Fully updated and expanded to include tutorials on basic … 338 View
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The Fight Against Inequality
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The Fight Against Inequality

From: The Fire and the Ashes

In this chapter, Jackson writes about the Great Recession of 2008-2009, and suggests that the functioning of democracies relies on economic and social equality. The best way to achieve this … 5 $0.50 Add
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The Fight for Water Justice
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The Fight for Water Justice

From: Still Hopeful

In Chapter Four Barlow focuses on the fight for water justice and her own activism. The chapter focuses on topics such as the commercialization of Canadian water, the North American Free Trade … 41 $4.10 Add
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The Financial Meltdown and Other Morbid Symptoms
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The Financial Meltdown and Other Morbid Symptoms

From: Breaking Free of Neoliberalism: Canada's Challenge

This chapter examines the financial crisis of 2007-2008 and movements such as the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street in its aftermath. 15 $1.50 Add
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The Financier

The Financier

From: Merchant Princes

1897-1901. Examines some of John F Stair’s work as a financier with focus paid to manufacturing, industrial endeavors, and shipbuilding 26 $2.60 Add
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The FIPA and the courts

The FIPA and the courts

From: Sold Down the Yangtze

This example shows how investor-state arbitrators can review a country’s highest courts, and order its people to pay for whatever the arbitrators order as a protection for foreign … 14 $1.40 Add
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The FIPA media blitz

The FIPA media blitz

From: Sold Down the Yangtze

Analyzes the media’s poorly informed spin on the FIPA and how this fueled government led propaganda 11 $1.10 Add
The Fire and the Ashes
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The Fire and the Ashes

Rekindling Democratic Socialism

In The Fire and the Ashes, long-time union economist and policy analyst Andrew Jackson looks back on a fascinating career in the labour movement, the NDP, and left politics, combining keen … 180 View
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The First World War and the Twenties, 1911–1929

The First World War and the Twenties, 1911–1929

From: Rivals for Power: Ottawa and the Provinces

Describes Ottawa’s efforts to supersede provincial powers especially concerning natural resources from 1911-1929. 17 $1.70 Add
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The Food Co-op Waves

The Food Co-op Waves

From: Grocery Story

This chapter describes Black American and working-class consumer co-ops founded in the 1930s Great Depression, many of which, resembling conventional grocery stores, are still in operation while … 18 $1.80 Add
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The Forward City
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The Forward City

Section 3: Jacobs’ Spectrum of Economic Regions

From: Cities Matter

Chapter 7 Economic literature now uses the term Jacobs’ agglomeration, and the term “forward city” is original to this text. The chapter describes “Jacobs … 6 $0.60 Add
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The Fourth World Is Emerging: A Zombie Mine Resurrection and the Refusal of the Tsilhqot’in
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The Fourth World Is Emerging: A Zombie Mine Resurrection and the Refusal of the Tsilhqot’in

Part One: Dispossession at Home

From: Capitalism and Dispossession

In Chapter 4, co-authors Dawn Hoogeveen (a non-Indigenous settler) and Russell Myers Ross (a member of the Tsilhqot’in Nation) examine the struggles to preserve Teztan Biny (Fish Lake), … ; 20 $2.00 Add