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Global Issues eBook Series

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  • Reclaiming Development

    An Alternative Economic Policy Manual

    by Ha-Joon Chang, Ilene Grabel ...
    Series series Global Issues
    There is no alternative to neoliberal economics - or so it appeared when Reclaiming Development was published in 2004. Many of the same driving assumptions - monetarism and globalization - remain within the international development policy establishment. Ha-Joon Chang and Ilene Grabel confront this neoliberal development model head-on by combining devastating economic critique with an array of ... Read more

    $21.05 CAD

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  • 23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism

    by Ha-Joon Chang ...
    INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER"For anyone who wants to understand capitalism not as economists or politicians have pictured it but as it actually operates, this book will be invaluable."-Observer (UK)If you've wondered how we did not see the economic collapse coming, Ha-Joon Chang knows the answer: We didn't ask what they didn't tell us about capitalism. This is a lighthearted book with a serious ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future

    How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future

    by Joseph E. E. Stiglitz ...
    A forceful argument against America's vicious circle of growing inequality by the Nobel Prize–winning economist.The top 1 percent of Americans control 40 percent of the nation’s wealth. And, as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains, while those at the top enjoy the best health care, education, and benefits of wealth, they fail to realize that “their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live. ... Read more

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  • Tax Is Not a Four-Letter Word

    A Different Take on Taxes in Canada

    Edited by Alex Himelfarb, Jordan Himelfarb ...
    Series Book 3 - Canadian Commentaries
    Taxes connect us to one another, to the common good, and to the future. This is a book about taxes: who pays what and who gets what. More than that, it’s about the role of government, about citizenship and our collective well-being, about the Canada we want. The contributors, leading Canadian practitioners and scholars, explore how taxes have become a political “no-go zone” and how changes in ... Read more

    $20.87 CAD

  • Capitalism Hits the Fan

    The Global Economic Meltdown and What to Do About It

    by Richard D. Wolff ...
    A BREATHTAKINGLY CLEAR ANALYSIS OF TODAY’S ONGOING ECONOMIC CRISIS In this updated edition of Capitalism Hits the Fan, Professor Wolff explains why capitalism's global crisis persists, why bank bailouts and austerity policies fail, and why deepening economic inequality now generates historic social tensions and conflicts and worsens the ongoing crisis. This book chronicles one economist’s growing ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • In and Out of Crisis

    The Global Financial Meltdown and Left Alternatives

    by Leo Panitch, Sam Gindin, Greg Albo ...
    Series series Spectre
    Our world is in the grips of the most calamitous economic crisis since the Great Depression—and its epicenter is the imperial United States, where hallowed investment banks have disappeared overnight, giants of industry have gone bankrupt, and the financial order has been shaken to the core.While many around the globe are increasingly wondering if another world is indeed possible, few are mapping ... Read more

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  • The Great Revenue Robbery

    How to Stop the Tax Cut Scam and Save Canada

    by Canadians for Tax Fairness ...
    Any attempt to restore responsible environmental policies, revive and expand our social programs, rebuild our crumbling infrastructure, and boost our flagging economy will be inadequate unless we also address the need to increase governments’ fiscal capacity. The tax system can also play a key role in closing the gap between rich and poor––a gap that is undermining the health of our economy and ... Read more

    $13.67 CAD

  • Against the Consensus

    Reflections on the Great Recession

    by Justin Yifu Lin ...
    In June 2008, Justin Yifu Lin was appointed Chief Economist of the World Bank, right before the eruption of the worst global financial and economic crisis since the Great Depression. Drawing on experience from his privileged position, Lin offers unique reflections on the cause of the crisis, why it was so serious and widespread, and its likely evolution. Arguing that conventional theories provide ... Read more

    $35.27 CAD

  • Awakening Giants, Feet of Clay: Assessing the Economic Rise of China and India

    by Pranab Bardhan ...
    The recent economic rise of China and India has attracted a great deal of attention--and justifiably so. Together, the two countries account for one-fifth of the global economy and are projected to represent a full third of the world's income by 2025. Yet, many of the views regarding China and India's market reforms and high growth have been tendentious, exaggerated, or oversimplified. Awakening ... Read more

    $35.36 CAD

  • Politics in the New Hard Times

    The Great Recession in Comparative Perspective

    Edited by Miles Kahler, David A. Lake ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Political Economy
    The Great Recession and its aftershocks, including the Eurozone banking and debt crisis, add up to the worst global economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Although economic explanations for the Great Recession have proliferated, the political causes and consequences of the crisis have received less systematic attention. Politics in the New Hard Times is the first book to focus on ... Read more

    $30.95 CAD

  • Fiscal Federalism

    by George Anderson ...
    A concise introduction to the ways in which the world's federations manage their finances. Topics covered include the distribution of taxation powers among different levels of government; regional equalization schemes; authority over natural resource revenues; and the impact of federal systems of government on pension, welfare, and income assistance programs. The book targets second-, third-, and ... Read more

    $5.84 CAD

  • Urbanization And Growth

    by Buckley Robert M.; Clarke Annez Patricia; Spence Michael ...
    • Why is productivity higher in cities? • Does urbanization cause growth or does growth cause urbanization? • Do countries achieve rapid growth or high incomes without urbanization? • How can policy makers reap the benefits of urbanization without paying too high a cost? • Does supporting urbanization imply neglecting rural areas? • Why do so few governments welcome urbanization? • What should ... Read more

    $26.54 CAD