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What's Wrong? eBook Series

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  • What's Wrong With the IMF and How to Fix It

    by Bessma Momani, Mark R. Hibben ...
    Series series What's Wrong?
    The IMF stands at a crossroad. Derided as increasingly irrelevant in the first decade of the new millennium, the Fund has had its power and prestige restored by the fallout from the 2008 global financial crisis. But will the resurgent IMF assert a more just and sustainable macroeconomic model and provide a voice for poor and marginalized people around the globe? Or will enduring weaknesses within ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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  • Just Business

    Multinational Corporations and Human Rights

    by John Gerard Ruggie ...
    Series series Norton Global Ethics Series
    "A true master class in the art of making the impossible possible." —Paul PolmanOne of the most vexing human rights issues of our time has been how to protect the rights of individuals and communities worldwide in an age of globalization and multinational business. Indeed, from Indonesian sweatshops to oil-based violence in Nigeria, the challenges of regulating harmful corporate practices in some ... Read more

    $26.81 CAD

  • The Price of Rights

    Regulating International Labor Migration

    by Martin Ruhs ...
    Many low-income countries and development organizations are calling for greater liberalization of labor immigration policies in high-income countries. At the same time, human rights organizations and migrant rights advocates demand more equal rights for migrant workers. The Price of Rights shows why you cannot always have both.Examining labor immigration policies in over forty countries, as well ... Read more

    $49.31 CAD

  • Introducing Globalization

    Ties, Tensions, and Uneven Integration

    by Matthew Sparke ...
    Designed specifically for introductory globalization courses, Introducing Globalization helps students to develop informed opinions about globalization, inviting them to become participants rather than just passive learners.Identifies and explores the major economic, political and social ties that comprise contemporary global interdependencyExamines a broad sweep of topics, from the rise of ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • The Politics of Global Regulation

    Edited by Walter Mattli, Ngaire Woods ...
    Regulation by public and private organizations can be hijacked by special interests or small groups of powerful firms, and nowhere is this easier than at the global level. In whose interest is the global economy being regulated? Under what conditions can global regulation be made to serve broader interests? This is the first book to examine systematically how and why such hijacking or "regulatory ... Read more

    $38.51 CAD

  • Gravity Shift

    How Asia's New Economic Powerhouses Will Shape the 21st Century

    by Wendy Dobson ...
    The rapid growth, diversity and strategic importance of the emerging Chinese and Indian economies have fired the world's imagination with both hopes and fears for the future. Wendy Dobson's perceptive analysis of changing institutions, demographics, and politics paints a thoughtful and surprising picture of India and China as economic powerhouses in the year 2030. Examining past events and current ... Read more

    $29.51 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

  • Corporate Power in a Globalizing World

    by William Carroll ...
    Winner of the Porter Prize, this classic study thoroughly profiles the corporate elite of late twentieth-century Canada, within a global context. It traces the fundamental changes in the structure of corporate power in Canada since the mid-1970s and highlights such key issues as the place of Canadian corporate power in global context, the westward shift of Canadian corporate power, and the ... Read more

    $9.62 CAD

  • Megacity Malaise

    Neoliberalism, Public Services and Labour in Toronto

    by Carlo Fanelli ...
    “[A] political economist with a gift– due to his not having forgotten his working class background– for bringing complex economic problems down to their real world implications for working people.” - Jeff Noonan“Fanelli does a very good job of demonstrating that the problem is not overpaid public sector workers, and that repeated demands for union concessions and more “flexible” work arrangements ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • How Ottawa Spends, 2012-2013

    The Harper Majority, Budget Cuts, and the New Opposition

    by G. Bruce Doern, Christopher Stoney ...
    Series Book 33 - How Ottawa Spends Series
    Continuing its tradition of current, exemplary scholarship, the 2012-13 edition of How Ottawa Spends casts a critical eye at national politics, priorities, and policies, with an emphasis on the Conservative majority's mandated austerity measures and budget-cutting strategies.Leading scholars from across Canada examine a new era of majority government and a transformed political opposition both in ... Read more

    $27.35 CAD

  • Governance and Public Policy in Canada

    A View from the Provinces

    by Johnson-Shoyama-Graduate School ...
    Governance and Public Policy in Canada lays the foundation for a systematic analysis of policy developments, shaped as they are by multiple players, institutional tensions, and governance legacies. Arguing that provinces are now the most central site of governance and policy innovation, the book assesses the role of the provinces and places the provincial state in its broader economic, ... Read more

    $22.31 CAD

  • The System Worked

    How the World Stopped Another Great Depression

    by Daniel W. Drezner ...
    International institutions, from the International Monetary Fund to the International Olympic Committee, are perceived as bastions of sclerotic mediocrity at best and outright corruption at worst, and this perception is generally not far off the mark. In the wake of the 2008 financial crash, Daniel W. Drezner, like so many others, looked at the smoking ruins of the global economy and wondered why ... Read more

    $18.71 CAD