Economics

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From Bad to Worse?

From Bad to Worse?

From: Equal as Citizens

Looks at the Defeat of the Liberal Party in 2006 and the policies that were then enacted by the Harper Government. Outlines the arguments about equalization that occurred after the Harper … 13 $1.30 Add
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From Beaver to Pond

From Beaver to Pond

A History

From: Unicorn in the Woods

This chapter links the entrepreneurial activities of Flood and Newton with another businessman from New Brunswick: Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook. It also touches on the historic and current … 14 $1.40 Add
From Corporate Globalization to Global Co-operation

From Corporate Globalization to Global Co-operation

We Owe It to Our Grandchildren

This book is about the need for an alternative to capitalism. But what does that alternative look like? And given the ever-increasing wealth and power of the 1 percent and the fact that … 196 View
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From Crisis to Opportunity

From Crisis to Opportunity

From: In The Business of Change

What often emerges out of these crisis situations — and their driven response — is opportunity unparalleled. After all, what greater inspiration for social, environmental and business … 16 $1.60 Add
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From Cultural Captivity to Focused Intention

From Cultural Captivity to Focused Intention

From: Resilience Imperative

We are so interconnected that if Western shoppers stopped going to Walmart to get more on the cheap, the Chinese economy might falter, putting at risk the financing of American debt and throwing … ; 33 $3.30 Add
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From Deregulation to Crisis

From Deregulation to Crisis

From: Bankrupticies & Bailouts

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From Feudalism to Capitalism:
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From Feudalism to Capitalism:

The Role of the Common People in the “Middle Ages”

From: Humans

This chapter looks at the arrival of feudalism and then capitalism across the world. It reviews instances of resistance to hierarchical rule and serfdom by peasants in Europe, Indigenous … 37 $3.70 Add
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From Forestry to Film: The Changing Political Economy of British Columbia

From Forestry to Film: The Changing Political Economy of British Columbia

From: British Columbia Politics and Government

Historical review tracing the changing nature of the political economy. ; ; 18 $1.80 Add
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From “institutional daycare” to “early learning and child care for all”
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From “institutional daycare” to “early learning and child care for all”

The Trudeau government's changing child care file

From: The Trudeau Record

This chapter assesses the Trudeau record on child care and early learning. ; 16 $1.60 Add
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From (Invisible) Coffee Farmer to Undocumented Construction Worker

From (Invisible) Coffee Farmer to Undocumented Construction Worker

The Life and Death of Álvaro Vargas Fonseca

From: The Fair Trade Handbook

In this chapter, the author outlines the chain of events that led to the death of a Costa Rican coffee farmer in a Toronto construction site. 10 $1.00 Add
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From Mercantilism to Neoliberalism and the Financial Crisis of 2008

From Mercantilism to Neoliberalism and the Financial Crisis of 2008

From: From the Great Transformation to the Great Financialization

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From Premodern Past to Digital Present

From Premodern Past to Digital Present

From: Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good

The disappearance of commons across the globe pushes the author to act on her expriences in Scotland, throwing her support behind the Idle No More movement. 9 $0.90 Add
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From the Ashes of Nortel

From the Ashes of Nortel

From: Unicorn in the Woods

This chapter recounts the bankrupcy of Nortel, and describes how one former Nortel employee took up a leadership role at UNB’s Centre for Technology Management and Entrepreneurship. 13 $1.30 Add
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From the Dolomites to the Dardanelles

From the Dolomites to the Dardanelles

From: The Great Class War 1914-1918

In 1915, countless allied lives, mainly Australian and New Zealander, are wasted in a vain attempt to advance toward Istanbul via the Gallipoli Peninsula and thus to knock the Ottoman Empire out … 18 $1.80 Add
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From the Fur Trade to Big Oil

From the Fur Trade to Big Oil

From: Organizing the 1%

The Making of Corporate Power ; 31 $3.10 Add
From the Great Transformation to the Great Financialization

From the Great Transformation to the Great Financialization

On Karl Polanyi and Other Essays

Four years into the unfolding of the most serious economic crisis since the 1930s, Karl Polanyi’s prediction of the fateful consequences of unleashing the destructive power of unregulated … 294 View