Economic Policy

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Fareed Zakaria in Conversation with Rudyard Griffiths

Fareed Zakaria in Conversation with Rudyard Griffiths

April 15, 2020

From: The World After Covid

Fareed Zakara and Rudyard Griffiths discuss Covid-19 and its global impacts. Topics include the world’s transition into a post-American world and China’s current power and influence, … 13 $1.30 Add
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Federating the Change Agents: Securing the Gains

Federating the Change Agents: Securing the Gains

From: Resilience Imperative

We must secure the innovations that are getting results by scaling up and broadening their applications. Many of the cases we have set out show how particular innovations have been scaled up and … ; 33 $3.30 Add
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From Beaver to Pond

From Beaver to Pond

A History

From: Unicorn in the Woods

This chapter links the entrepreneurial activities of Flood and Newton with another businessman from New Brunswick: Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook. It also touches on the historic and current … 14 $1.40 Add
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From the Ashes of Nortel

From the Ashes of Nortel

From: Unicorn in the Woods

This chapter recounts the bankrupcy of Nortel, and describes how one former Nortel employee took up a leadership role at UNB’s Centre for Technology Management and Entrepreneurship. 13 $1.30 Add
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Giving with Both Hands: Why Corporate Welfare Failed Canadians
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Giving with Both Hands: Why Corporate Welfare Failed Canadians

From: At the Trough

In this chapter, Carbonneau traces why decades of Canadian corporate subsidy programs, from the Second World War through the 1980s, failed to resolve the country’s economic problems. 10 $1.00 Add
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Green Growth--A Dangerous Distraction?

Green Growth–A Dangerous Distraction?

From: Escape from Overshoot

In this chapter the author examines the concept of "sustainable growth" and whether it is a viable solution to overshoot. 28 $2.80 Add
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Halfway to Impossible

Halfway to Impossible

From: Unicorn in the Woods

This chapter concerns Radian6, a social media monitoring platform founded by many of the players discussed in the book thus far. Radian6 was later purchased and folded into the Salesforce brand. 14 $1.40 Add
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Here Come the Americans

Here Come the Americans

From: Unicorn in the Woods

In this chapter, Pitts describes Q1 Labs’ success in finding funding, and how they confronted concerns about their Canadian and Maritime location. 9 $0.90 Add
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Hi, I'm from New Brunswick

Hi, I’m from New Brunswick

From: 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. 11 $1.10 Add
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Homebodies

Homebodies

From: 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. 16 $1.60 Add
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Ian Bremmer in Conversation with Rudyard Griffiths

Ian Bremmer in Conversation with Rudyard Griffiths

June 3, 2020

From: The World After Covid

Ian Bremmer and Rudyard Griffiths discuss Covid-19 and Black American experiences, future international impacts of the pandemic, technology and authoritarianism, economic futures, globalization, … 11 $1.10 Add
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In a Tower of Glass
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In a Tower of Glass

From: Seven Days in Halifax

In this chapter, Ashe describes the events of Day Two of "Encounter on Urban Environment," detailing how officials interviewed by the panel (federal and provincial planners) addressed … 12 $1.20 Add
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In the Middle of the Atlantic

In the Middle of the Atlantic

From: Unicorn in the Woods

This chapter explores "the next big one," the hoped-for startup that will generate economic activity in the Maritimes. 9 $0.90 Add
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Industry Captures the Oil Sands

Industry Captures the Oil Sands

From: Oi'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. 15 $1.50 Add
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Introduction

Introduction

A New Economic Paradigm Based on Well-Being

From: An Economy of Well-Being

This book is meant to engender hope that a dark age ahead can be avoided and the current system of economic malaise transcended with a more compelling economic future based on the goal of … 8 $0.80 Add
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Introduction

Introduction

When Brian Met Chris

From: Unicorn in the Woods

In the introduction, Pitts describes a consequential meeting of two tech enthusiasts in New Brunswick. 6 $0.60 Add