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  • Unemployment and Labour Force Behaviour of Young People

    Evidence from Canada and Ontario

    Series series Heritage
    While the unemployment rate for young people has always tended to be well above the average, this tendency has been greatly accentuated in recent years. There is a large turnover in the youth labour force, and the employment of experience of those between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five has been marked by seasonal variations. This study discusses the factors which contribute to the high youth ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Distribution of Income and Wealth in Ontario

    Theory and Evidence

    Series series Heritage
    Distribution analysis has advanced remarkably in recent years, and this is a valuable application of its principles to a Canadian context. The book provides an extensive survey of recent literature and a new source of income and wealth distribution data for Ontario, drawn from newly available microdata sets. It also presents an evaluation of the data as a basis for measuring inequality in the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Merits of Flexible Exchange Rates

    An Anthology

    by Leo Melamed ...
    This anthology of significant writings by eminent economists is, in part, a critique of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates, which was very successful at the time it was instituted but which, because of its rigidity, failed in the end to address the economic problems of the post-war era. The authors suggest that the stock market crash of 1987 might not have occurred if market forces ... Read more

    $56.99 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

  • The Management Explosion and the Next Environmental Crisis

    Series series Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures
    The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.David Ehrenfeld examines the consequences of "the extraordinary proliferation of administration, of bureaucracy, of management, the increasing percentage of people in our society who control events but do not themselves produce anything real." He ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Before the Industrial Revolution: European Society and Economy, 1000-1700 (Third Edition)

    The Third Edition includes substantial revisions and new material throughout the book that will secure its standing as the most useful history available of preindustrial Europe.During the seven hundred years before the Industrial Revolution, the stage was set for Europe's transformation from a backward agrarian society to a powerful industrialized society. An economic historian of international ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The New Unionism in the New Society

    Public Sector Unions in the Redistributive States

    by Leo Troy ...
    Leo Troy describes and analyzes the changes in the economy and labor markets and the subsequent and continuing changes in unions. He contrasts new and old unionism, detailing the characteristics of the new union movement and patterns of organization. He sets this discussion in the context of the new industrial relations system and compares and contrasts the old and new philosophies of unionism. ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • 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

  • Money and Banking

    The American Experience

    Today, interest in monetary history has been revived. Economists are examing the "structure" of money and banking: what is money and what are banks? With new technologies, overwhelming market forces, and changes in law and regulation, the answers that had been taken for granted have been revealed to be inadequate.Money and Banking spans the period from the founding of the country to the present. ... Read more

    $86.99 USD

  • Ethnicity, Markets, and Migration in the Andes

    At the Crossroads of History and Anthropology

    Until now, Andean peasants have primarily been thought of by scholars as isolated subsistence farmers, "resistant" to money and to different markets in the region. Ethnicity, Markets, and Migration in the Andes overturns this widely held assumption and puts in its place a new perspective as it explores the dynamic between Andean cultural, social, and economic practices and the market forces of a ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Economic and Social Environment for Tax Reform

    Edited by Allan Maslove ...
    Series series Heritage
    Major economic and social developments that will determine the context for tax reforms in the 1990s are the subject of this volume. They include the globalization of markets, free trade arrangements, changing technology and production processes, macro-economic policies and conditions in Canada, and population growth and changes in demographic structure. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Building a Win-Win World

    Life Beyond Global Economic Warfare

    “She finds paths from competition to cooperation . . . from global abuse to grassroots solutions—and thus from isolated despair to communal action.” —Gloria SteinemWorld-renowned futurist Hazel Henderson extends her twenty-five years of work in economics to examine the havoc the current economic system is creating at the global level. Markets are now spreading worldwide—a spread which is often ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Is Japan Really Changing Its Ways?

    Regulatory Reform and the Japanese Economy

    Deregulation has been at the top of Japan's economic policy agenda for many years. Now, in the midst of a financial crisis that engulfs all of Asia, pressures on the Japanese government for substantial reform--coming from both inside and outside forces--are stronger than ever.But is Japan actually making the changes necessary to reduce market controls, encourage competition, and create new ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Affluent Society

    The classic by the renowned economist: “One of those rare works that forces a nation to re-examine its values” (The New York Times).One of the New York Public Library’s “Books of the Century”Hailed as a “masterpiece” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), this examination of the “economics of abundance” cuts to the heart of what economic security means (and doesn’t mean) and lays bare the hazards of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Community, State, and Market on the North Atlantic Rim

    Challenges to Modernity in the Fisheries

    Series series Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy
    This is a study of Northern Norway and Atlantic Canada, two regions experiencing a severe crisis due to overexploitation of fisheries resources. The work of a group of researchers from Canada, Norway, and the United States, it examines the implications of common market integration, privatized resource management, and small business development policies for fishery-dependent communities in terms of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Boom Town Blues: Elliot Lake

    Collapse and Revival in a Single-Industry Community

    Boom Town Blues: Collapse and Revival in a Single-Industry Community tells of the Northern Ontario city of Elliot Lake, once the uranium capital of the world, which was devastated by the closing of the uranium mines operated by Denison and Rio Algom.The closures and mass layoffs were first announced in 1990 with the layoffs occurring from then until June 1996. Throughout the period after the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Age of Access

    The New Culture of Hypercapitalism

    by Jeremy Rifkin ...
    Visionary activist and author Jeremy Rifkin exposes the real stakes of the new economy, delivering "the clearest summation yet of how the Internet is really changing our lives" (The Seattle Times).Imagine waking up one day to find that virtually every activity you engage in outside your immediate family has become a "paid-for" experience. It's all part of a fundamental change taking place in the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Future of Success

    If you think it’s getting harder to both make a living and make a life, economist and former secretary of labor Robert Reich agrees with you. Americans may be earning more than ever before, but we’re paying a steep price: we’re working longer, seeing our families less, and our communities are fragmenting.With the clarity and insight that are his hallmarks, Reich delineates what success has come to ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The 7 Dirty Words of the Free Agent Workforce

    From the author of Free Agent Nation, comes a short manifesto about the 7 words you should never use as you try to be your own manager or start your own business.In the new economy, everyone is a free agent. That can be a headache for managers -- or it can be an opportunity. In this short, focused eBook exclusive, Daniel Pink -- author of Free Agent Nation -- equips business leaders with a simple, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Indians, Markets, and Rainforests

    Theoretical, Comparative, and Quantitative Explorations in the Neotropics

    by Ricardo Godoy ...
    This book addresses two important and related questions: does participation in a market economy help or hurt indigenous peoples and how does it affect the conservation of tropical rainforest flora and fauna? Oddly, there have been few quantitative studies that have addressed these issues.Ricardo Godoy's research takes an important step toward rectifying this oversight by investigating five ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • Financial Planning and Management in Public Organizations

    This work focuses on the theory and practice of financial management in public organizations and local government, highlighting the planning, analysis, and control skills necessary to navigate a future of change in technology, society, politics and economics. It details three fundamental areas of responsibility in the annual financial management cy ... Read more

    $350.99 USD

  • The Coming Collapse of China

    China is hot. The world sees a glorious future for this sleeping giant, three times larger than the United States, predicting it will blossom into the world's biggest economy by 2010. According to Chang, however, a Chinese-American lawyer and China specialist, the People's Republic is a paper dragon. Peer beneath the veneer of modernization since Mao's death, and the symptoms of decay are ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • As the Future Catches You

    How Genomics and Other Forces Are Changing Your Life, Work, Health, and Wealth

    by Juan Enriquez ...
    You will never look at the world in the same way after reading As the Future Catches You. Juan Enriquez puts you face to face with a series of unprecedented political, ethical, economic, and financial issues, dramatically demonstrating the cascading impact of the genetic, digital, and knowledge revolutions on your life.Genetics will be the dominant language of this century. Those who can “speak it ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Market Drive and Governance

    Re-examining the Rules for Economic and Commercial Contest

    by Ralf Boscheck ...
    Corporate moves towards focused production and outsourcing, governmental reforms involving privatization and deregulation and the globalization of trade and investments promise large efficiency gains. However, the necessary coordination mechanisms call for regulatory approval and policy guidelines to safeguard these undertakings against abuse, whic ... Read more

    $24.99 USD