Economics
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From ![]() Agricultural Change and Sustainable DevelopmentFrom: Human Development |
Henry Veltmeyer | 16 | 2014 | $2.40 Add | |
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From ![]() Aid for TradeFrom: Fixing Fashion |
The chapter Aid for Trade takes a look at the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement over 20 years, considering who has benefitted. It also analyzes statistics and outcomes by country, … | Michael Lavergne | 13 | 2015 | $1.30 Add |
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From ![]() Alberta |
Reading nearly fifty years of Canadian Dimension’s eye on Alberta is both sobering and heartening. Sobering because one realizes how little the province’s political culture and … | Trevor W. Harrison | 9 | 2016 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() Alberta and the myth of SisyphusFrom: Moment of Truth |
In this chapter, Flanagan traces Alberta’s roughly 150-year struggle, from the 1869 purchase of Rupert’s Land to the 2020s climate policies, to safeguard its natural resources within … | Tom Flanagan | 25 | 2020 | $2.50 Add |
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From ![]() Alberta has viable trade optionsFrom: Moment of Truth |
In this chapter, Burney and Osler Hampson examine Alberta’s economic vulnerability from the late 1990s through 2020, outlining three strategic trade options for the province. | Derek H. Burney | 25 | 2020 | $2.50 Add |
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From ![]() Alberta’s fiscal contribution to confederationFrom: Moment of Truth |
In this chapter, Mansell traces Alberta’s fiscal relationship with the federal government from 1961 to 2018. | Robert Mansell | 26 | 2020 | $2.60 Add |
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From ![]() Alienating Agreements; or Treaties as Thievery — Early Capitalism at Work in the 1870s and 1880sFrom: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada’s Origins 1500-1890 |
This chapter looks at John A. MacDonald’s National Policy in the 1870s ‘ and 1880s’ post-Confederation Canada in the form of railroads, tariffs and immigration, as well as the … | Bryan D. Palmer | 15 | 2024 | $1.50 Add |
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From ![]() Alphabet SoupFrom: Fixing Fashion |
In Alphabet Soup, the author begins to examine his process of engaging with the darkers aspects of the global fashion industry, such as child labor, global trade agreements and their impacts, … | Michael Lavergne | 36 | 2015 | $3.60 Add |
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From ![]() American Fans and Partners of HitlerFrom: Big Business and Hitler |
Revisionist historian Jacques R. Pauwels looks at the support that Hitler received from American industrialists and bankers who were tied to German business from 1920-1940. | Jacques R. Pauwels | 17 | 2017 | $1.70 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 |
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From ![]() America’s HostageFrom: The Two Michaels |
In this chapter, Blanchfield and Osler Hampson explore how the 2018–2020 United States–China trade war shaped Canada’s response to the detention of Michael Kovrig and Michael … | Fen Osler Hampson; Mike Blanchfield | 9 | 2021 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() An Awkward Time for the Universities |
In this chapter, Cowan traces sixty-two years of North American university life, from 1960 to 2008, arguing that institutions improved after the Second World War, plateaued, and have since … | John Scott Cowan | 44 | 2023 | $4.40 Add |
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From ![]() An Economy of Fair Trade and Right Relations |
Common cause projects can at the same time tackle the global and local activist divide, bringing members of national and international groups together with local, grounded activists. | Heather Menzies | 14 | 2014 | $1.40 Add |
![]() An Economy of Well-BeingCommon-sense tools for building genuine wealth and happiness |
In the face of political, financial, and environmental upheaval, it’s difficult to slow down and build lives of mindfulness and joy. These things are within reach, but how can we go about … | Mark Anielski | 242 | 2018 | View |
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From ![]() An example of regulatory chillFrom: Sold Down the Yangtze |
Opponents of investor-state arbitration have long warned that it may lead to so-called “regulatory chill,” by creating financial risks for countries that deter responsible regulation … | Gus Van Harten | 10 | 2015 | $1.00 Add |
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From ![]() An Historical Frame for Current Activism |
If we want to come home to the Earth, reviving our sense of connection to it, we must first come home to ourselves, healing our relationship with ourselves, and those around us. | Heather Menzies | 9 | 2014 | $0.90 Add |















