Think Tanks
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From  NEW! Actors: The Rise of Transnational Professional Service FirmsFrom: The Consulting Trap |
Chapter Two describes the history of TPSFs (transnational professional service firms), from the late nineteeth century to the 1990s and early 2000s.The authors divide the history into four major … | 35 | 2024 | $3.50 Add | |
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From  Big Oil and Think Tanks Besiege KyotoFrom: The Big Stall |
Examines the business led campaign to discredit the Kyoto Accord in the 1990s and 2000s. Big business lobbied for a "made in Canada" solution while funding a massive anti-Kyoto … | Donald Gutstein | 20 | 2018 | $2.00 Add |
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From Big Oil Takes ControlFrom: The Big Stall |
Analyzes the rise of neo-liberalism think tanks in Canada and their impact on energy policy through the 1970s and 1980s. Trudeau’s Keynesian interventions such as the NEP and Petro Canada … | Donald Gutstein | 18 | 2018 | $1.80 Add |
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From Containing EnvironmentalismFrom: The Big Stall |
Describes the business lobby’s tactics to contain environmentalism propaganda, including the use of think tanks, during the 1970s and 1980s. Details the rise of neo-liberalism via the Mont … | Donald Gutstein | 24 | 2018 | $2.40 Add |
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From  EPICThe oil industry comes to call From: Oil’s Deep State |
Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft describes the commercial crimes unit of the RCMP’s 2011 investigation into Bruce Carson’s lobbying activities which exposed the strategies … | Kevin Taft | 15 | 2017 | $1.50 Add |
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From  Extractive EconomyFrom: Getting to Zero |
Discusses Canadian economic history, focusing on the analysis that inteprets Canada as an extractive economy. Situates PMs Harper and Trudeau’s policies in this context. Examines the … | Tony Clarke | 27 | 2018 | $2.70 Add |
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From From Environmental Crisis to Business TransitionFrom: The Big Stall |
Discusses how corporations came to recognize climate change as a profitable opportunity, and how public policy shifted from regulation of carbon emissions to measures that corporate leaders … | Donald Gutstein | 16 | 2018 | $1.60 Add |
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From  From Many PlacesFrom: From Bombs to Books |
An introduction to Edmonds Community School’s and Byrne Creek School’s history and experience in multicultural education. In these schools six out of ten students are learning English. | David Starr | 8 | 2016 | $0.80 Add |
 Oil and World PoliticsThe real story of today's conflict zones: Iraq, Afghanistan, Venezuela, Ukraine and more |
This book identifies the underlying role played by the oil and gas resource and the oil industry in international affairs, with a focus on recent conflict zones. It discusses military … | John Foster | 280 | 2018 | View |
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From  Oil-Lobby Power, Railway-Lobby Power |
Analyzes the rise of Stephen Harper against the backdrop of Big Oil interests. Identifies how oil lobby, backed by rail lobby, and supported by Harper pushed through additional deregulation. He … | Bruce Campbell | 12 | 2018 | $1.20 Add |
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From NEW! Programs: Evading, Auditing, Financializing, PrivatizingFrom: The Consulting Trap |
Chapter Three explores how TPSFs have contributed to the hardwiring of neoliberal operating systems into the state. The authors examine how the Big Four firms have played a central role in … | 37 | 2024 | $3.70 Add | |
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From Rio to KyotoThe Road Not Taken From: The Big Stall |
Analyzes the tactic of "greenwashing" and the use of terms like "sustainable development" allowing big business to adopt the language of environmentalism but none of the … | Donald Gutstein | 16 | 2018 | $1.60 Add |
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From  Sharing the WealthFrom: BlackBerry Town |
Covers RIM and Jim Balsillie’s support of the University of Waterloo and the foundation and growth of Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI). | Chuck Howitt | 16 | 2019 | $1.60 Add |
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From NEW! Strategies: Networking, Institutionalizing, Commodifying, and BrokeringFrom: The Consulting Trap |
In Chapter Four, the authors identify four strategies that TPSFs (transnational professional service firms) have used to gain influence and entrench themselves in public policymaking and service … | 34 | 2024 | $3.40 Add | |
The Big StallHow big oil and think tanks are blocking action on climate change in Canada |
This book traces the origins of the Trudeau government’s climate change plan back to the energy sector itself — in particular Big Oil. It shows how, in the last fifteen years, Big Oil … | Donald Gutstein | 304 | 2018 | View |
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NEW! The Consulting TrapHow Professional Service Firms Hook Governments & Undermine Democracy |
The Consulting Trap does a deep dive into how governments have become hooked on private consultancy firms with dire consequences for democratic decision-making, public accountability and … | 204 | 2024 | View |
