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Neoliberal Politics
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Neoliberal Politics

Transforming Conservativism

From: Breaking Free of Neoliberalism: Canada's Challenge

This chapter discusses the economic conditions of the late 1970s that made Canada ripe for conservatism and the impact of the Regan and Thatcher governments on the rise of neoliberalism in Canada … 20 $2.00 Add
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Neoliberal Politics: Transforming Conservatism
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Neoliberal Politics: Transforming Conservatism

From: Breaking Free of Neoliberalism in Trump Times

In this chapter, Himelfarb examines how the economic upheaval of the 1970s and 1980s allowed neoliberal ideas to reshape conservative politics in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. 19 $1.90 Add
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Neoliberal Reason
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Neoliberal Reason

From: Breaking Free of Neoliberalism in Trump Times

In this chapter, Himelfarb traces the intellectual roots of neoliberalism from the 1930s through the 1940s, centring on Friedrich Hayek and the 1947 founding of the Mont Pelerin Society. 19 $1.90 Add
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Neoliberalism and Decentralized Activism

Neoliberalism and Decentralized Activism

From: Take Back the Fight

The second chapter, Neoliberalism and Decentralized Activism, provides background on neoliberal economic policy and considers the role of it in the destruction of social movements via the ways it … 20 $2.00 Add
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Neoliberalism and its Effects

Neoliberalism and its Effects

From: About Canada: Poverty

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Neoliberalism at the Margins of the Working World

Neoliberalism at the Margins of the Working World

From: If You're In My Way, I'm Walking

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Neoliberalism Comes to Canada
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Neoliberalism Comes to Canada

From: Breaking Free of Neoliberalism: Canada's Challenge

This chapter examines the arrival of neoliberal rule in Canada and factors such as the rightward orientations of regional governments in the West, the election of Brian Mulroney, policy changes … 43 $4.30 Add
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Neoliberalism Comes to Canada
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Neoliberalism Comes to Canada

From: Breaking Free of Neoliberalism in Trump Times

In this chapter, Himelfarb traces how neoliberal ideology reshaped Canada from the 1970s through 2015, moving from a protective welfare state toward deregulation and austerity. 45 $4.50 Add
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Neomercantilist imperialism and its implosion (1870-1945)
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Neomercantilist imperialism and its implosion (1870-1945)

From: Imperialism

In this chapter, Saul traces neomercantilist imperialism from 1870 to 1945, a phase in which the 1873 depression, protectionist tariffs, and the scramble for colonies reshaped global power. 42 $4.20 Add
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Net-Zero Challenge

Net-Zero Challenge

From: Getting to Zero

Indentifies how Canada, in contrast to several other countries, has failed to develop a credible plan of action for reducing greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by 2050. Proposes that an … 18 $1.80 Add
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Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste
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Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste

From: The Consulting Trap

In the Preface, the authors introduce a case study about Deloitte, a transnational professional services firm. The firm’s plan to introduce a social contact-tracing software during the … ; 8 $0.80 Add
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New Beginnings: Tar Sands Prospecting Abroad

New Beginnings: Tar Sands Prospecting Abroad

Part I: Tar Sands Expansionism

From: A Line in the Tar Sands

In Chapter 9 MacDonald Stainsby explores the rise of “extreme” fossil energy extraction such as for oil shale and fracking for “tight” oil and natural gas. The chapter … 11 $1.10 Add
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New Water

New Water

From: Dry Run

In this chapter, we’ll learn more about two sources of "new water" from technologies not typically in widespread use today throughout the US, desalination of seawater and expanded … 13 $1.30 Add
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Newton's Law

Newton’s Law

From: Unicorn in the Woods

This chapter explores Chris Newton’s younger years; he was an early adopter of home computers, and later enrolled in the computer science program at the University of New Brunswick. 11 $1.10 Add
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Niall Ferguson in Conversation with Rudyard Griffiths

Niall Ferguson in Conversation with Rudyard Griffiths

May 6, 2020

From: The World After Covid

Niall Ferguson and Rudyard Griffiths discuss history and possible political, social, economic, and cultural consequences of the pandemic. Topics include historical precedence, public response, … 14 $1.40 Add
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Nietzsche and Social Darwinism

Nietzsche and Social Darwinism

Ode to War

From: The Great Class War 1914-1918

The process of democratization seems to be irresistible and, with the rise of the “masses,” the elite, besieged and increasingly pessimistic, seeks remedies in Social- Darwinist … 22 $2.20 Add