Economics
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From  Towards Financial Sustainability |
If you took a survey of social entrepreneurs, particularly those in the startup phase, and asked them about their top challenges, you’d no doubt hear one constant refrain: funding. That is … | Elisa Birnbaum | 16 | 2018 | $1.60 Add |
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From  Turning on the Tap? Water Exports to the United StatesFrom: Living with Uncle |
Examines the idea of exporting water in bulk to the US, describes the US need for water, the Canadian abundance of Water, and opposing views | Tony Clarke | 26 | 2006 | $2.60 Add |
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From  Twilight Capitalism or Socialist RevolutionFrom: Twilight Capitalism |
This chapter examines "twenty-first-century socialism," and how young people are generally moving to the left and becoming attracted to socialist ideas. | Jonah Butovsky; Josh J. Watterton; Murray E.G. Smith | 32 | 2021 | $3.20 Add |
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From  Ukraine and Pipeline Rivalry: Two NarrativesFrom: Oil and World Politics |
Analyzes the two narratives (US/NATO and Russian) relating to the change of government in 2014, the civil war and sanctions. Considers energy security issues: Ukraine’s reliability as the … | John Foster | 40 | 2018 | $4.00 Add |
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From  UnionsTheir Role in Democracy and Prosperity From: Canada after Harper |
Lynne Fernandez then recounts how neoliberal government and corporate practices have weakened unions and violated their fundamental rights. | Lynne Fernandez | 25 | 2015 | $2.50 Add |
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From  Unleashing PhilanthropyFrom: Clean Money Revolution |
Giving away money is an under-realized subset of clean money. The world needs to unleash the charitable sector in solving big problems. Foundations are monumentally important in this. They hold … | Joel Solomon; Tyee Bridge | 18 | 2017 | $1.80 Add |
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From  Which Side Are You On?Indigenous Peoples and Canada's Labour Movement |
Unions will need to extend their activities beyond the traditional concerns of organized labour to substantively engage with Indigenous struggles. This requires a multipronged approach, … | Suzanne E. Mills; Tyler McCreary | 19 | 2021 | $1.90 Add |
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From  With Philosophy, Psychology, and Terror: Transforming Bodies into Labor Power |
In this chapter, feminist scholar Silvia Federici discusses the effects of the capitalist system on the conception of the body. She discusses how capitalist systems reduce the body to a base unit … | Silvia Federici | 14 | 2020 | $1.40 Add |
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From  NEW! “It Has Not Been Like a Dream”: Challenging the Story of Extractivism in IndonesiaPart Two: Dispossession Abroad |
In Chapter 9, author Tracy Glynn examines the experience of the Indigenous Karsonsi’e Dongi and Sorowako Peoples of Indonesia. The chapter explores Glynn’s own work in the region with … | Tracy Glynn | 25 | 2022 | $2.50 Add |
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From  Possible conflicts over Canadian jobs, health, and the environment From: Sold Down the Yangtze |
not all Chinese investment in Canada is objectionable. Yet, for many Canadians, it seems possible that Chinese investment will undermine their priorities when it comes to jobs, health, or the … | Gus Van Harten | 9 | 2015 | $0.90 Add |
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From  1939–1945Hitler’s War? From: Big Business and Hitler |
Revisionist historian Jacques R. Pauwels examines World War II (1939-1945) focussing on how it furthered the interests of big business in Germany and Germany’s elite | Jacques R. Pauwels | 15 | 2017 | $1.50 Add |
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From  NEW! 7. The Energy Turnaround“Electrifying Everything” From: Earth for All |
Chapter 7 focuses on energy consumption and a clean energy future, discussing clean power technologies, fairness of pushing expensive clean energy, fossil fuel industry’s power, the … | Jørgen Randers; Jayati Ghosh; Johan Rockström; Owen Gaffney; Per Espen Stoknes; Sandrine Dixson-Declève | 18 | 2022 | $1.80 Add |
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From  Accountable LeadershipFrom: Take Back the Fight |
In chapter eight, Accountable Leadership, the importance of leaders in the feminist movement and the importance of accountability in leadership is considered. The author emphasizes the … | Nora Loreto | 16 | 2020 | $1.60 Add |
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From  Accounting and Law |
Discusses accounting and the law, considering general principles such as the privity of relationships, foreseeability and duty of care. | Vern Krishna | 11 | 2013 | $1.10 Add |
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From  AfterwordLooking Back on A Moment of Truth: An International Perspective From: A New Kind of Union |
Economist and union activist Jim Stanford looks back on Canada’s union movement since 2011 and how Canadian labour fares compared to other countries with the use of key graphs and statistics. | Jim Stanford | 22 | 2019 | $2.20 Add |
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From  NEW! American Workers and the Left after TrumpPolarized Options |
Sam Gindin examines the state of the American Left after the Trump Administration. For Gindin, the US left faces ‘polarized options’; the challenge it faces is ‘to conceive of … | Sam Gindin | 19 | 2021 | $1.90 Add |
