Economics
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From  Personal Well-BeingFrom: An Economy of Well-Being |
* Well-Being is a Choice * Money, Your Life and Happiness | Mark Anielski | 8 | 2018 | $0.80 Add |
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From  Peter Lougheed and the rise of the oil sandsFrom: Oil’s Deep State |
Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft examines Peter Lougheed’s government in Alberta and the rise of the oil sands paying particular attention to Lougheed’s stance against … | Kevin Taft | 11 | 2017 | $1.10 Add |
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From  Petro-Capitalism and the Tar SandsPart I: Tar Sands Expansionism From: A Line in the Tar Sands |
In Chapter 1 Angela Carter uses petro-capitalism as a lens to capture the scale and complexity of the tar sands industry, focusing on our economic, political, and environmental costs of fossil … | Angela V. Carter | 13 | 2014 | $1.30 Add |
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From Petro-Chemical Legacies and Tar Sands Frontiers: Chemical Valley versus Environmental JusticePart II: Communities and Resistance From: A Line in the Tar Sands |
In Chapter 13 Toban Black critically examines the conference titled “Bitumen—Adding Value: Canada’s National Opportunity” in May of 2013, discussing potential tar sands … | Toban Black | 12 | 2014 | $1.20 Add |
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From  Petroleum and GeopoliticsFrom: Oil and World Politics |
Discusses petroleum, the most valuable commodity in world trade, and its ties to politics and power. Introduces the links between governments and oil corporations, the history of petrodollars in … | John Foster | 30 | 2018 | $3.00 Add |
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From  NEW! Pharmaceutical CompaniesRelationship Between the Canadian Government and Big Pharma — “Clientele Pluralism” From: Corporate Rules |
In this chapter, Joel Lexchin examines the pharmaceutical industry and “clientele pluralism. “ Lexchin argues that the pharmaceutical industry can drive regulation by influencing not … | Joel Lexchin | 20 | 2022 | $2.00 Add |
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From Pipelines and Resistance across Turtle IslandPart III: Future Prospects From: A Line in the Tar Sands |
Chapter 23 examines resistance to pipelines across Turtle island (Canada), discussing Indigenous resistance and the anti-pipeline movement, decolonization, the resurgence of Indigenous … | Sâkihitowin Awâsis | 14 | 2014 | $1.40 Add |
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From  Planning an Escape from OvershootFrom: Escape from Overshoot |
In this chapter the author details practical ways to escape from overshoot. | Peter Victor A. | 22 | 2023 | $2.20 Add |
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From  NEW! Planning Your New VentureFrom: The Farmer's Office |
This chapter covers how to begin planning your farming venture. | Julia Shanks | 5 | 2024 | $0.50 Add |
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From  Plastic: So Great, So Awful – Some New Directions |
In this chapter the authors explore some of contradictions in plastic, and explain and evaluate the potential paths and barriers to how plastic might actually redeem itself and prove that it has … | Mikhail Davis; Wes Sullens; Wil Srubar | 16 | 2017 | $1.60 Add |
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From  Plutocracy Awaits UsFrom: Canada after Harper |
Linda McQuaig tells us how the inequality generated by “free market” policies has widened the gap between Canada’s ultra-rich and most other Canadians. | Linda McQuaig | 6 | 2015 | $0.60 Add |
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From  Conclusion: Political Implications and Moving ForwardFrom: Bombardier Abroad |
Additional Cases and Future Research – Final Thoughts | David P. Thomas | 11 | 2018 | $1.10 Add |
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From  NEW! Politics After the Meltdown and Then the Pandemic |
This chapter discusses the electoral success of left-leaning parties in the West the (Cameron, Obama and Trudeau governments) in response to the economic crisis and rising inequality , as well as … | Alex Himelfarb | 35 | 2024 | $3.50 Add |
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From  NEW! Popular Notions of Classes Today |
In this chapter, Livingstone looks at popular notions of class differences among people in advanced capitalist societies today. Livingstone explores notions of the general sorts of classes and … | D.W. Livingstone | 29 | 2023 | $2.90 Add |
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From  NEW! Popular Reaction to the First World War and the 1930s Great DepressionFrom: Humans |
This chapter examines popular resistance during the First World War and its aftermath. It also reviews the efforts to find a more humane alternative to the capitalist economic system, … | Alvin Finkel | 48 | 2024 | $4.80 Add |
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From  NEW! Portrait of a PublisherJack McClelland and McClelland & Stewart in 1968 From: 1968 in Canada |
Nineteen sixty-eight was a tremendously eventful year for publisher Jack McClelland and his publishing house, McClelland & Stewart. On the one hand, spurred by funding opportunities initiated … | Laura K. Davis | 19 | 2021 | $1.90 Add |
