Economics

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We're All Keynesians - Again

We’re All Keynesians – Again

From: Bankrupticies & Bailouts

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Whale Hunting on the New York Thruway

Whale Hunting on the New York Thruway

From: Unicorn in the Woods

This chapter details Pitt’s visits to startup incubators in the United States, and explores several nascent companies with the potential to garner a billion-dollar valuation. 13 $1.30 Add
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What are P3s?

What are P3s?

From: About Canada: Public-Private Partnerships

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What Business Can Learn from Sports about Data (and Vice Versa)
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What Business Can Learn from Sports about Data (and Vice Versa)

From: Shifting the Balance

Readings in part 4 of this text explore the ways in which data-driven decision making are applied to different industries. This chapter explores case studies in the world of professional sports … 20 $2.00 Add
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What do the treaties prohibit?

What do the treaties prohibit?

From: Sold Down the Yangtze

The expansions of the treaties’ vague protections for foreign investors have a corresponding impact on voters who want a government to be able to change its policies, or on taxpayers who … 9 $0.90 Add
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What Do We Need to Do?
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What Do We Need to Do?

From: Runaway Climate

What Do We Need to Do? Personal actions, public health, role of government, fossil fuel subsidies, zero carbon commitments, carbon pricing 17 $1.70 Add
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What Does It Mean to Be a Movement? A Proposal for a Coherent, Powerful, Indigenous-Led Movement

What Does It Mean to Be a Movement? A Proposal for a Coherent, Powerful, Indigenous-Led Movement

Part III: Future Prospects

From: A Line in the Tar Sands

In Chapter 24 Emily Coats focuses on Indigenous-led movements in Northern Alberta, discussing climate change, climate injustices, pollution, the Crown and Canadian law, and the UN Declaration on … 12 $1.20 Add
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What Economic Sovereignty Really Means
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What Economic Sovereignty Really Means

From: Reclaiming Canadian Sovereignty in a Ruptured World

In this chapter, Lam examines how Canada’s economic dependence on the United States threatens its political independence. 14 $1.40 Add
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What if it was a judicial process?

What if it was a judicial process?

From: Sold Down the Yangtze

One of the key flaws in investor-state arbitration is that it leads to final decisions about issues of great importance for countries (and foreign investors too), but does not use a judicial … 9 $0.90 Add
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What Is Capitalism?

What Is Capitalism?

From: Ecology for the 99%

This chapter explains capitalism as both an economic system and a form of social organization. It also explores how capitalism can be undemocratic and highlights the problems with capitalist companies. ; ; ; ; 8 $0.80 Add
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What is the Consulting Trap?
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What is the Consulting Trap?

From: The Consulting Trap

In Chapter One, the authors define TPSFs (transnational professional service firms), including where they are located, what services they provide, how they have been able to influence … ; 24 $2.40 Add
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What is Wrong with Social Media?
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What is Wrong with Social Media?

An Anti-Capitalist Critique

From: The Socialist Register 2022

Marcus Gilroy-Ware provides an authoritative and skeptical assessment of ‘what is wrong with social media’ and places the social pathologies they amplify within the capitalist … 20 $2.00 Add
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What Kind of Superpower Do We Want to Be?
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What Kind of Superpower Do We Want to Be?

From: Reclaiming Canadian Sovereignty in a Ruptured World

In this chapter, Stanford examines Canada’s deepening entrenchment in raw resource exports and the historical industrial policies once used to counter that dependence. 15 $1.50 Add
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What Needs to Be Done

What Needs to Be Done

From: We Are Not Okay

In this chapter, Chin examines the steps required in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic that claimed over 17.2 million lives globally. 7 $0.70 Add
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What on Earth is Corporate Power?

What on Earth is Corporate Power?

From: Organizing the 1%

Corporations and Capitalism ; 24 $2.40 Add
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What should we stand for?

What should we stand for?

From: SOS

Chapter 10 explores what we should stand for in the coming decades, discussing the 2011 Occupy movement, programs for change, degrowth, achieving wider finance control for the masses, improving … 23 $2.30 Add