Economics
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 NEW! The Consulting TrapHow Professional Service Firms Hook Governments & Undermine Democracy |
The Consulting Trap does a deep dive into how governments have become hooked on private consultancy firms with dire consequences for democratic decision-making, public accountability and … | 204 | View | ||
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From  The Consumer in a Changing Food SystemFrom: Emergent Agriculture |
Profitability is determined in the market. Consumers must value products sufficiently to pay a price that exceeds the cost of production and transportation. Price is determined by myriad factors, … | Gary S. Kleppel | 15 | 2014 | $1.50 Add |
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From  The Corporation vs. NatureFrom: The Big Stall |
Discusses an alternative approach to dealing with climate change: abandon neo-liberal measures and shift to a zero growth economy with redistribution of existing wealth. Action requires … | Donald Gutstein | 17 | 2018 | $1.70 Add |
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From  The Cost of PovertyFrom: About Canada: Poverty |
Jim Silver | 26 | 2014 | $2.34 Add | |
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From  The Councils and Collective Life: Expansion, Repression, AssimilationFrom: For Land and Culture |
In this chapter, Vahabzadeh traces the Turkmen peasants’ council movement in Iran’s Plains of Turkmen during 1979 and 1980. | Peyman Vahabzadeh | 54 | 2024 | $5.40 Add |
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From  The Craftworkers’ Challenge |
We meet the first movement of organized craftworkers beginning to take shape in the mid-nineteenth century in response to the new capitalist organization of work and labour markets. By the end of … | Craig Heron | 27 | 2012 | $2.70 Add |
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From  The "Creative Class" Creates a Global Urban ClashFrom: Shift Change |
In this chapter, the author examines the relationship between Hamilton and Toronto, and how these two once-divided cities are now closely intertwined. The chapter also explores gentrification in … | Stephen Dale | 53 | 2021 | $5.30 Add |
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From  The Crisis of CommunityFrom: Humanizing the Economy |
The Decline of Social Capital The End of Authenticity Shadowland Reciprocity and Restoration The Meaning of Work | John Restakis | 25 | 2010 | $2.50 Add |
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From  NEW! The Crisis of US Labour, Past and Present |
Samir Sonti explores the long decline of organized labour since its heyday in the mid-twentieth century. Sonti explores the challenge of rebuilding the American union movement in the post-Trump … | Samir Sonti | 24 | 2021 | $2.40 Add |
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From  The Current CrisisFrom: The Tangled Garden |
Documents Canada’s cultural policies as they stand today. Specifically focusing on Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government and Melanie Joly’s tenure as Canada’s minister for … | Richard Stursberg | 32 | 2019 | $3.20 Add |
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From  The Customs Act |
Description of the important provisions of the Customs Act governing the basic obligations to report goods to customs, to make due entry of them, and to pay applicable duties and taxes. | Mohan Prabhu | 75 | 2014 | $7.50 Add |
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From The Customs Tariff |
Description of the process of imposition of duties, tariff classification, origin of goods and marking, tariff treatment, and duties relief, including a separate classification for prohibited goods. | Mohan Prabhu | 223 | 2014 | $22.30 Add |
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From The Daughters of KaliFrom: Humanizing the Economy |
Sonagchi The Stories A Terrible Reflection | John Restakis | 28 | 2010 | $2.80 Add |
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From  The democratic emergencyFrom: SOS |
Chapter 8 examines why the North lacks the same political energy for enacting change, discussing the decline in political awareness and engagement, Social movements , the business oligarchy, … | Richard Swift | 11 | 2016 | $1.10 Add |
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From  The Dependency IllusionFrom: Indigenomics |
Topics discussed in this chapter include the Great Debunk: Addressing the Illusion | Carol Anne Hilton | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add |
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From  The Depression, 1929–1939 |
Describes the responses of the provinces and Ottawa to the Depression from 1929-1939. | Ed Whitcomb | 18 | 2017 | $1.80 Add |
