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The 2003 federal budget
The 2003 Federal Budget was the first for a new Minister of Finance who was running for higher office and likely the last of an outgoing long-time Prime Minister. It thus represents the outcome of many conflicting tensions within a context of a rapidly changing political, economic and internation...
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The immaculate conception of data
Large-scale agribusinesses are among the largest and oldest oligopoly corporations in the world, now constituting a form of big tech alongside companies like Google and Facebook. The Immaculate Conception of Data explores the secretive legal agreements surrounding agricultural big data to trace h...
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Reform of retirement income policy
The retirement income system has been hailed as one of the great successes of Canadian social policy. However, contemporary pressures have generated a vigorous debate about the way ahead. Fundamental reforms are being proposed and Canadians face important choices.
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Leave no doubt
A practical and engaging primer for living up to your potential from a leader in the world of sports.
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Understanding canada
As corporations are restructured, governments cut back, and the international economy transformed, there is an increasing need to understand the economic and political forces involved, evaluate their implications, and develop strategies to modify them to meet society's interests. In light of the ...
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Easy prey investors
How obsolete court decisions, lawmaker inaction, and conflicted self-regulators are facilitating the theft of wealth and retirement savings in Canada.
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Reinventing the economic history of industrialisation
The Industrial Revolution is central to the teaching of economic history. It has also been key to historical research on the commercial expansion of Western Europe, the rise of factories, coal and iron production, the proletarianization of labour, and the birth and worldwide spread of industrial ...
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A state of minds
In A State of Minds Thomas Courchene examines the political structures that link local, provincial, and federal governments and challenges many longstanding beliefs about how society should be organized and financed. While focusing on Canadian competitiveness in a global economy, Courchene shows ...
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Infrastructure and competitiveness
The tenth John Deutsch roundtable on economic policy: proceedings of a conference held in Ottawa, 3-4 June 1993.
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Silent surrender, new edition
First published in 1970, Silent Surrender helped educate a generation of students about Canadian political economy. Kari Levitt details the historical background of foreign investments in Canada, their acceleration since World War II, and the nature of intrusions by multinational corporations int...
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From charity to change
A timely contribution to the current debate on the legitimacy of organized philanthropy in an era of increasing social division and inequality, in From Charity to Change Hilary Pearson draws on personal experience and interviews with foundation leaders from across Canada to make a compelling case...
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Innovation, science, environment 1987-2007
This special edition of Innovation, Science, Environment includes reflections from a number of Canada's leading sustainable development thinkers, two decades after the 1987 publication of the seminal United Nations report Our Common Future. Published by the World Commission on Environment and Dev...
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Contesting rural space
A micro-history of Saltspring Island in the early years of resettlement.
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Subsistence under capitalism
An understanding of subsistence is crucial to comprehending and challenging the human relationship to nature under capitalism.
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Productivity, growth, and canada's international competitiveness
This first volume in the Bell Canada Papers on Economic and Public Policy includes essays on productivity and growth, the cost of capital and competitive advantage, globalization and competition policy, worker co-operation and technical change, three visions of competitiveness, agents of change a...
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The making and unmaking of a university museum
In The Making and Unmaking of a University Museum Young elucidates the relationship between museums and communities by examining the nineteenth-century social context of the family who bequeathed their collection to McGill University and the collection's fate in an academic institution. Tracing t...
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Improving connections between governments, nonprofit and voluntary organizations
Governments and nonprofit organizations are becomingly increasingly intertwined in a complex policy dance as they attempt to improve service delivery to Canadians. Yet little is known about developments across the various jurisdictions.
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Elinor ostrom and the bloomington school
Exploring the legacy of a trailblazing economist and Nobel Prize winner.
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Technology and national competitiveness
Technology is an increasingly important factor in the competition between nations for international trade. It affects the range of products a country exports, the quality of these products, and the price for which they are sold. Unlike traditional, neo-classical theories of international trade an...
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Karl polanyi on ethics and economics
Breaking new ground in Polanyi scholarship, Gregory Baum explores the relation between ethics, culture, and economics in Karl Polanyi's writings. He identifies and analyses key concepts of Polanyi's thought and shows how they apply to the contemporary debate on ethics and economics.
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Canada: the state of the federation, 1999-2000
Canada: State of the Federation, 1999-2000 identifies and explains major threads in Canadian fiscal federalism. Set against the cacophony over domineering and arrogant centralization from supporters of Quebec sovereignty/session on the one hand, and fears that excessive decentralization is fuelli...
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Colonization and community
In the nineteenth century coal-miners imported from Europe, Asia, and eastern North America burrowed beneath the Vancouver Island towns of Nanaimo, Wellington, and Cumberland. No group was as numerous and influential in this enterprise as the hundreds o
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Satanic purses
In a savage critique, R.T. Naylor investigates the American government's understanding of and response to 9/11, exposing the official story - and the resulting global War on Islamic Terror - as based on myth and misinformation. Satanic Purses examines how misguided notions about the structure and...
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Knowledge, clusters and regional innovation
An insightful picture of the varied and complex nature of the regional and local innovation systems found across Canada.
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