Political Economy
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From  NEW! Capitalism’s Changing Contours, 1960-2000: The Bursting of the Post-War Bubble |
This chapter covers Canada’s economic history from 1960 to 2000. Palmer describes how trade deals with the U.S. intensified economic integration, favouring foreign (often American) … | Bryan D. Palmer | 8 | 2026 | $0.80 Add |
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From  Chapter 1: Before the Online Streaming Act: How Canada "Regulates” Its Broadcasting SystemFrom: Canada Vs California |
In this Chapter author Howard Law provides a primer on how Canada has regulated its broadcasting system for the last several decades as well as the three amendments to this act over this period … | Howard Law | 19 | 2024 | $1.90 Add |
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From  NEW! Chapter 7: Stoking the Fire – Designing for Radical Inclusion |
This chapter explores the Indigenous economic and governance structures that, by centering Indigenous self-determination, dismantle Indian Act economics. | Carol Anne Hilton | 42 | 2025 | $4.20 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 8: The Rise of Indigenous Economic Power |
This chapter highlights initiatives that would help make up $100 billion in Indigenous economic value, such as leveraging cultural capital, advancing sustainable development, and more. | Carol Anne Hilton | 54 | 2025 | $5.40 Add |
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From  Checks, Unbalanced: Why Competition Policy Has FailedFrom: The Big Fix |
In this chapter, Hearn and Bednar trace Canada’s competition policy from the 1889 Anti-Combines Act to the 1986 Competition Act, examining how neoliberal philosophy and the Chicago … | Denise Hearn; Vass Bednar | 8 | 2024 | $0.80 Add |
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From  Code Green: Circular Economies of CareFrom: Hot Mess |
In this chapter, Wiebe examines how care-based, circular economies of care offer a path beyond extractive capitalism, drawing on ecofeminist theory, Indigenous knowledge systems, and climate justice. | Sarah Marie Wiebe | 24 | 2024 | $2.40 Add |
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From  Commons and CommoningFrom: Free, Fair and Alive |
In the first chapter, the authors argue first that large-scale cooperation is possible for humans, and that commoning, our capacity to self-organize and help each other through creation of … | David Bollier; Silke Helfrich | 16 | 2019 | $1.60 Add |
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From  NEW! Cracks in mercantilist imperialism (1776-1815)From: Imperialism |
In this chapter, Saul traces the unravelling of the mercantilist colonial system between 1776 and 1815. He examines how the American Revolution, Adam Smith’s free trade arguments, and the … | Samir Saul | 18 | 2025 | $1.80 Add |
 NEW! Crisis and ContagionConversations on Capitalism and Covid-19 |
Crisis and Contagion is a selection of fourteen interviews conducted by Ian McKay of the Wilson Institute at McMaster University. Interviews with Nancy Fraser, Mike Davis, Mack Penner, Andreas … | Ian McKay | 324 | 2023 | View |
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From NEW! Crisis and Regime Change in Canada, 2025 |
In this chapter, Palmer describes US president Donald Trump’s dramatic impact on Canadian politics and how this led to the surprise elevation and then 2025 electoral success of Mark Carney … | Bryan D. Palmer | 14 | 2026 | $1.40 Add |
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From NEW! Crisis Capitalism and the Political Economy of Instability: Canada’s Downward Slide, 2000–25 |
An overview of the Canadian economy’s development in the period 2000-2025. | Bryan D. Palmer | 7 | 2026 | $0.70 Add |
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From NEW! Crisis Capitalism in 2025: A Balance Sheet |
In this concluding chapter of his three-volume history, Palmer concludes that recurring financial crises are a signature feature of postwar capitalism. Capitalism has yielded deep and growing … | Bryan D. Palmer | 15 | 2026 | $1.50 Add |
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From NEW! Deindustrialization in Hard Times: Dismantling Canadian Workplaces, 2000–25 |
In this chapter, Palmer describes the steady deindustrialization of the Canadian economy with many specific examples in the 2000-2025 period. | Bryan D. Palmer | 13 | 2026 | $1.30 Add |
 NEW! Dispatches from the ThresholdTenant Power in Times of Crisis |
Housing insecurity turned catastrophic during the COVID-19 pandemic, exposing the cruelty of threadbare tenant protections and state hostility toward unhoused people made worse by mass … | Alexander Ferrer; Rae Baker | 238 | 2025 | View |
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From  NEW! Epilogue and NotesFrom: Thinking Systematics |
In this chapter, Smith and Hayslip present a framework for rigorous, truth-oriented thinking as a corrective to relativism and post-truth culture. | Murray E.G. Smith; Tim Hayslip | 46 | 2025 | $4.60 Add |
 FleecedCanadians Versus Their Banks |
These are just a few of the many ways chartered banks abuse their dominant position in the Canadian financial system. Fleeced: Canadians Versus Their Banks is a stunning exposé of the inner … | Andrew Spence | 101 | 2024 | View |
