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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From  Hi, I’m from New BrunswickFrom: Unicorn in the Woods |
This chapter focuses on the Q1 Labs’ hunt for venture capital, which included multiple trips to the United States to woo wary investors. | Gordon Pitts | 11 | 2020 | $1.10 Add |
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From HomebodiesFrom: Unicorn in the Woods |
In this chapter, Pitts focuses on Daniella DeGrace, who was a key player in several New Brunswick startups, including iMagic, Q1 Labs, and Radian6. | Gordon Pitts | 16 | 2020 | $1.60 Add |
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From  Ideological BiasFrom: Legalizing Theft |
Alain Deneault | 11 | 2018 | $1.10 Add | |
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From In the Middle of the AtlanticFrom: Unicorn in the Woods |
This chapter explores "the next big one," the hoped-for startup that will generate economic activity in the Maritimes. | Gordon Pitts | 9 | 2020 | $0.90 Add |
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From  Increasing Corporate TaxesFrom: Share the Wealth! |
Readings in part 2 of this title explore potential solutions to income inequality in Canada. This chapter discusses the taxation of large Canadian corporations. Topics discussed include how … | Angella MacEwen; Jonathan Gauvin | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
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From Increasing Income Taxes for the One Per CentFrom: Share the Wealth! |
Readings in part 2 of this title explore potential solutions to income inequality in Canada. This chapter discusses the benefits to increasing income taxes for the top one percent of earners in … | Angella MacEwen; Jonathan Gauvin | 9 | 2021 | $0.90 Add |
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From  Industry captures the oil sandsFrom: Oil’s Deep State |
Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft examines the Oil Industry’s capture of the oil sands in Alberta as a way to boost the economic interests of the province. | Kevin Taft | 19 | 2017 | $1.90 Add |
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From  Inequality at the Top |
The income share of Canada’s top earners has risen sharply since the 1980s, as balanced growth has been replaced by accelerated income growth for the top 1%, and relative income stagnancy … | Lars Osberg | 30 | 2018 | $3.00 Add |
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From  NEW! Inequality at the top |
In this chapter, the author examines the implications of strong income growth at the very top of the income distribution scale in Canada. | Lars Osberg | 34 | 2024 | $3.40 Add |
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From Inequality from the Bottom Up |
As average incomes increase in a society, many cheap goods become unavailable and the cost of living for poor people rises. Although different poverty line methodologies produce somewhat … | Lars Osberg | 23 | 2018 | $2.30 Add |
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From NEW! Inequality of wealth |
In this chapter, the author presents data on inequalities of wealth before the Covid-19 pandemic and outlines how the inequality of wealth and economic power increased in Canada throughout the … | Lars Osberg | 30 | 2024 | $3.00 Add |
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From  NEW! Interregnum and the Birth of Neoliberalism |
This chapter outlines the origins of neoliberalism and the key ideas of this philosophy as well as tracing its resurgence beginning in the 1980s after decades of disfavour. | Alex Himelfarb | 36 | 2024 | $3.60 Add |
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From  Introducing the TPP |
Overview of the Trans-Pacific Partnership in terms of it’s effect on Canada. Briefly outlines the debates and the specific areas that other chapters delve more thoroughly into. | Scott Sinclair; Stuart Trew | 23 | 2016 | $2.30 Add |
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From  IntroductionFrom: The Big Stall |
Compares and contrasts the energy policies of Pierre and Justin Trudeau to demonstrate the shift from a government able and willing to intervene in the economy to pursue the national interest to … | Donald Gutstein | 3 | 2018 | $0.30 Add |
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From IntroductionFrom: Legalizing Theft |
Alain Deneault | 2 | 2018 | $0.20 Add | |
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From IntroductionWhen Brian Met Chris From: Unicorn in the Woods |
In the introduction, Pitts describes a consequential meeting of two tech enthusiasts in New Brunswick. | Gordon Pitts | 6 | 2020 | $0.60 Add |
