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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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Capitalism xxl
Capitalism XXL calls for changing the rules of capitalism in order to tame giant corporations and restore the individual to the world economy. Noels proposes an approach that considers human dimensions and describes a sustainable future economy that will not burden subsequent generations with deb...
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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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Amassing power
At the turn of the century American industrialist J.B. Duke set his sights on one of North America's greatest and most spectacular rivers - the Saguenay. In Amassing Power David Massell chronicles thirty years of international intrigue as Duke manoeuvred to gain access to, develop, and sell the t...
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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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Stikeman elliott
The recent history of a leading Canadian law firm.
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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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A measure of wealth
The land tax duplicates -- which ostensibly provide a complete yearly inventory of all landowners and tenants in every county in the United Kingdom, parish by parish -- are considered the most important systematic documentation available on British landed society between the Domesday Book of 1086...
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The persistence of unemployment
In The Persistence of Unemployment Stephen Jones presents a comprehensive assessment of persistent unemployment, specifically hysteresis, in Canadian labour markets.
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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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The state of economics in canada
Each article in this collection addresses a particular field or issue in the discipline of economics and surveys the state of knowledge in this area in Canada, pointing out gaps in the knowledge base and directions for future research. Contributors include Richard Bird (University of Toronto), Ro...
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Enduring work
Comparing the lived reality of agricultural workers, in-home caregivers, and low- and high-wage workers, and integrating the perspectives of employers both reluctant and reckless, Catherine Connelly unpacks the harms within Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program and offers nuanced strategies t...
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From politics to profit
In their drive to maximize profits, Canadian publishers abandoned partisan politics and adopted sensationalistic journalism to build audiences for advertisers. From Politics to Profit analyses the decisive period in which newspapers changed in content and appearance as the number of "fluff" piece...
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Making a killing
Making a Killing explores the often-overlooked world of terrorist financing and the involvement of the international banking system. Ian Oxnevad seeks to assess how effective new laws and regulations have been, as well as to identify best practices for future attempts to counter the financing of ...
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Gross national product, canada, 1870-1926
Gross National Product, Canada, 1870-1926: The Derivation of the Estimates sets out in detail the sources of data and methods employed to obtain annual estimates of the gross national product of Canada between 1870 and 1926. Many other data used in compilation of the estimates or as a basis for a...
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Canada and the cost of world war ii
Canada's most famous contributions to the Allied victory in World War II include Dieppe, the campaign in Italy, the bombing missions over Germany, and D-Day. Much less known are Canada's financial contributions to the war effort. In this sequel to his groundbreaking Maturing in Hard Times, legend...
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Expect miracles
David Culver narrates his journey from his upbringing in Montreal's Golden Square Mile, through his studies at McGill and Harvard, his army service during the Second World War, to his impressive rise at Alcan to become chairman and chief executive officer of one of Canada's leading multinational ...
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