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  • An Introduction to Political Economy

    Series series Heritage
    Newly revised by the author (1956), this text-book for beginning students is also designed for general readers who want to know what economics is and how economists think. It analyses the size and composition of the wage-earner in modern industry, Canadian public policy in relation to combines, and the the social problems of the special problems of the Canadian wheat-growing and newsprint ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Industrial Relations

    Challenges and Responses

    Edited by John Crispo ...
    Series series Heritage
    Industrial relations, which in the past have focused almost entirely on union-management relations, have recently been expanded to include such new areas of interest as manpower and poverty problems. At the University of Toronto a new Centre for Industrial Relations has been established, a research-oriented institution whose primary objective is to further scholarly investigations into all phases ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Wages, Prices, Profits, and Economic Policy

    Proceedings of a Conference held by the Centre for Industrial Relations, University of Toronto, 1967

    Edited by John Crispo ...
    Series series Heritage
    The essays included in this book are the proceedings of a conference held by the Centre for Industrial Relations at the University of Toronto, 1967. They have been divided into five sections: "Wage-Price-Profit Relations in Canada—The Problem in Perspective," "A Diagnosis of the Problem," "Foreign Experience," "The Government and Wage-Price-Profit Relations," and "A Policy for Canada." The essays ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The TRACE Econometric Model of the Canadian Economy

    Series series Heritage
    The TRACE (Toronto annual Canadian econometric) model is an annual, non-linear econometric model of the Canadian economy designed primarily to forecast the statistics which appear in the principal tables of the Canadian National Income and Expenditure Accounts. TRACE is the first Canadian econometric model from which a published ex ante forecast has been made. In this book the authors describe the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Direct Foreign Investment in Asia and the Pacific

    Edited by Peter Drysdale ...
    Series series Heritage
    This volume appears at a time when there is tremendous interest in direct investment of one country in the industry of another. It brings together papers by leading economists from North America, Australia and Asia, and provides an excellent introduction to this currently important economic issue.The contributions include original and comprehensive surveys of experience with, and policies towards, ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Imperial Economic Policy 1917-1939

    by Ian Drummond ...
    Series series Heritage
    This book offers a detailed account, based on primary source materials from Britain, Canada, and Australia, of the process by which the Empire settlement programme and the Ottawa Agreements were devised. It also traces the effects of both, placing them in the general contexts of British economic policy-making, imperial economic diplomacy and the contemporary concern with economic imperialism. Its ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • The Energy Question Volume One: The World

    An International Failure of Policy

    Series series Heritage
    The so-called energy crisis that burst upon the world in 1973 was not easily understood by many people. It was neither 'the beginning of the end' nor the first encounter by modern man with the natural result of his prodigality. These papers, collected in two volumes, from energy economists in the United States, Canada, and Britain all indicate that the 'crisis' was and is a short-run problem ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • From Adam Smith to Maynard Keynes

    The Heritage of Political Economy

    Series series Heritage
    In this survey of the great exponents of the classical tradition, Vincent Bladen examines the thought and works of Adam Smith, T.R. Malthus, Henry Thornton, David Ricardo, J.S. Mill, Karl Marx, W.S. Jevons, Alfred Marshall, and John Maynard Keynes, and relates their views to modern situations. This is a personal introduction by one of Canada’s senior economists to some of the great books in the ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • The Energy Question Volume Two

    North America: An International Failure of Policy

    Series series Heritage
    The so-called energy crisis that burst upon the world in 1973 was not easily understood by many people. It was neither 'the beginning of the end' nor the first encounter by modern man with the natural result of his prodigality. These papers, collected in two volumes, from energy economists in the United States, Canada, and Britain all indicate that the 'crisis' was and is a short-run problem ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Moselle

    River and Canal from the Roman Empire to the European Economic Community

    Series series Heritage
    The Moselle has been one of the main arteries of European Communication and transportation for centuries. The Romans used it as a main thoroughfare from southern to northern Europe and also began the improvements to its navigation that have continued intermittently through the industrial revolution to the present day. Professor Cermakian focuses on the historical, political, and geographical ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • A Theory of the Expenditure Budgetary Process

    Series series Heritage
    This crisp, provocative, lively, sometimes opinionated analysis is an important contribution to the scanty Canadian literature on the politics of the budgetary process. It is an important theoretical contribution to the study of political decision-making made by an economist.Speaking from personal experiences of the administrative struggles that lie behind evolving federal expenditure priorities, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Tariff and Science Policies

    Applications of a Model of Nationalism

    Series series Heritage
    This controversial analysis of economic nationalism will interest economists and those concerned with nationalism and the competitive position of Canadian manufacturing. It is the first attempt to test empirically an economic model of nationalism, a model which implies than an emphasis on nationalism ultimately reduces economic efficiency – with low-income groups bearing most of the resultant cost ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Soviet Theory of Development

    India and the Third World in Marxist-Leninist Scholarship

    Series series Heritage
    Until now the innumerable and widely distributed Soviet writings on the third world haven been scrutinized for the clues they contain on the Kremlin's aid, trade, and foreign policies, on Soviet strategies for local communist parties, and even on shifts in the Sino-Soviet Relationship. But they have rarely been analysed in their own terms and for what they are – the application of marxist-leninist ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • The Economic Constitution of Federal States

    Series series Heritage
    A study of "economic imperialism" based on a theoretical inquiry into the most important research frontier in the scholarly field: the analysis of constitutions. The book evaluates constitutional arrangements by the degree to which they economize on the scarcity of resources available in any society, demonstrating a preference for constitutions that make governments efficient. ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Essays in Political Economy

    In Honour of E.J. Urwick

    Series series Heritage
    This volume of essays in Political Science is a tribute to the character and work of Professor Edward Johns Urwick who in June, 1937, retired under the age limit from the chair of Political Economy in the University of Toronto. It is the first volume of a series in Political Economy to be published by the Maurice Cody Foundation and the University of Toronto Press. It includes articles written by ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Regulation by Municipal Licensing

    Series series Heritage
    Municipal licensing serves a variety of regulatory purposes such as consumer protection and public health and safety. The municipal licensing power is delegated from the provincial government, up to the present, municipalities have been restricted to enumerated, specific powers, and the result has been the growth of a disorganized and unwieldy accumulation of bylaws, many of which conflict or are ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • La direction du Trésor

    Issu du mot latin "thesaurus", le terme de Trésor apparaît dès 1080 et est employé à partir du XIIe siècle pour désigner l’ensemble des ressources financières à la disposition du souverain. Mais quels en sont les structures, les attributions, le mode de fonctionnement, les règles, l’influence ? Autant de questions auxquelles répond François Eck dans cet ouvrage daté de 1986. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Economic Liberties and the Judiciary

    Essays in this volume refocus attention on Constitutional protection for economic liberties. Divided into three parts, the book deals with the following topics: Interpreting the Constitution: Theory and Practice; Property Rights, Activism and the Judicial Process; and Recent Economic Issues in the Courts. ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • Canada Since 1945

    Revised Edition

    Series series Heritage
    From the preface:"A visitor seeing Canada for the first time since 1939 might well conclude that Canada, even more than nations devastated by war, has become another country. On the surface so much remains the same: the Liberals prevail in Ottawa; the provinces quarrel with Ottawa and among themselves; and we worry about Americans in our future. But most of the pieces have been rearranged, and the ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • The State, Business, and Industrial Change in Canada

    Series series Heritage
    The late twentieth century has seen profound changes in the character of the international economic order. According to the authors of this study, Canada has failed to come to terms with those changes. Our industrial policy is diffuse, ad hoc, and sectoral. Michael Atkinson and William Coleman argue that in order to analyse Canada’s industrial policy effectively, particular attention must be given ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • La Vérité sur la monnaie

    by Pascal Salin ...
    Concevoir une économie sans monnaie défie l'imagination. C'est pourtant un exercice salutaire, et le point de départ d'une critique radicale des idées reçues et des habitudes en la matière. Ce livre met à la portée du lecteur une véritable théorie de la monnaie. Professeur à Paris-Dauphine, Pascal Salin est un économiste libéral, dans la lignée de Hayek. ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Canada 1900-1945

    Series series Heritage
    Through war, depression, and social upheaval, the first half of the twentieth century was a period of unprecedented turbulence in Canada. In this lively and contentious survey, Robert Bothwell, lan Drummond, and John English explore the political and economic forces that shaped this era of change.As in their earlier work, the highly acclaimed Canada since 1945, the authors focus on the political ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Poverty and the Underclass

    Changing Perceptions of the Poor in America

    Explains the failure—on both sides of the aisle—of the War on PovertyThe much-heralded War on Poverty has failed. The number of children living in poverty is steadily on the rise and an increasingly destructive underclass brutalizes urban neighborhoods. America's patience with the poor seems to have run out: even cities that have traditionally been havens for the homeless are arresting, harassing, ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Continuities and Discontinuities

    The Political Economy of Social Welfare and Labour Market Policy in Canada

    Series series Heritage
    Continuities and Discontinuities assesses the making of Canadian social and labour market policy in the context of two factors—globalization and neoconservatism. Specialists from a variety of fields and disciplines examine the relation between Canada's changing political economy and its social welfare and labour market policy. These essays analysing continuities and discontinuities in policy ... Read more

    $25.99 USD