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  • Perilous Passage

    Mankind and the Global Ascendancy of Capital

    Series series World Social Change
    In this innovative and ambitious global history, distinguished economic historian Amiya Kumar Bagchi critically analyzes the processes leading to the rise of the West since the sixteenth century to its current position as the most prosperous and powerful group of nations in the world. Integrating the history of armed conflict with the history of competition for trade, investment, and markets, ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • El crack del año ocho. La crisis. El futuro

    La globalización estaba sustentada en un enorme y artificial globo crediticio que al explotar ha hecho pedazos el modelo neoliberal. Este libro disecciona las causas de la crisis su irrupción en la economía real y las diferentes alternativas de los gobiernos para abordarla. Se dan razones para sostener que la crisis será profunda y prolongada. Y para superarla se sugieren alternativas que ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Select Documents in Canadian Economic History 1783-1885

    Edited by Arthur Lower, Harold A. Innis ...
    Series series Heritage
    This second volume of economic documents resumes the story of the development of Canada as told by contemporary sources. Newspaper accounts of economic forces and factors, contemporary writings by statesmen and business men, poems depicting current situations, official documents—all have been included. The volume divides the period into two eras, 1783-1850 and 1850-85. The basis of classification ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Man’s Worldly Goods

    by Leo Huberman ...
    Man's Worldly Goods - The Story of The Wealth of Nations By Leo Huberman Originally published in the 1930s, this is 'an attempt to explain history by economic theory, and economic theory by history'. It charts the path from feudalism to capitalism, and then looks beyond capitalism to a perceived socialist future. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • 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

  • Canadian Agricultural Policy

    The Historical Pattern

    by Vernon Fowke ...
    Series series Heritage
    First published in 1946, this historical analysis of Canadian agricultural policy from 1600 to 1930 tests the assumption that agriculture has been Canada's basic industry, central in the economic and political life of the nation. Professor Fowke demonstrates that agricultural interests have always been secondary in shaping agricultural policy. Government attitudes have been influenced less by ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • English Merchant Shipping 1460-1540

    Series series Heritage
    Between 1460 and 1540 the development of merchant shipping was of vital importance to the growth of England as a European power. In this work Miss Burwash offers a complete history of the English merchant marine in the late middle ages and early renaissance period. Her account includes a description of the size and design of the ships, the trades in which they engaged, the business arrangements ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Monopolies and Patents

    A Study of the History and Future of the Patent Monopoly

    by Harold G. Fox ...
    Series series Heritage
    Harold G. Fox is a native of Toronto and a graduate of the University of Toronto and the Law School of Osgoode Hall. For some years he practised patent and trade mark law as a member of the firm of Fetherstonhaugh & Fox. In the nineteen-twenties he was invited to take over the management of the Canadian zipper industry and, since that time, has devoted his main energies to the development of that ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Tariff Procedures and Trade Barriers

    A Study of Indirect Protection in Canada and the United States

    Series series Heritage
    Most Canadians are vividly aware of some of the effects tariffs have on their daily lives. As consumers they pay more than their American neighbours for many articles in everyday use; as producers they often find their markets drastically restricted because of tariff barriers. Indeed, the customs tariff has been a burning issue in the political and economic life of the country for most of its ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Forests and French Sea Power, 1660-1789

    by Paul Bamford ...
    Series series Heritage
    By choosing to concentrate upon discovering what forest resources were available to the French navy during the ancien régime and what use it was able to make of them, Mr. Bamford has not only provided the first monograph on that subject in the English language, but has gone far toward explaining why France was the loser in the long duel with England for the control of commerce and the extension of ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The National Policy and the Wheat Economy

    by Vernon Fowke ...
    Series series Heritage
    First published in 1957, this study traces the development of the national policy as it affected the growth of the Canadian trade and discusses the grain marketing problems of Western Canada in the decades that followed, with detailed attention to legislation and moves by various growers' groups in an attempt to meet these problems. This important study in political economy is organized into four ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Monetary and Fiscal Thought and Policy in Canada, 1919-1939

    Series series Heritage
    In this careful and thorough study of a Canadian field which has been relatively untouched in recent years, Dr. Brecher records and comments on the development of monetary and fiscal thinking in Canada in the inter-war period, and its impact on public policy in the federal sphere. Examining Canadian opinion about economic theory during this time, the author draws on four fields of thought: that of ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Customs Administration in Canada

    by Gordon Blake ...
    Series series Heritage
    The Canadian tariff has been a singularly faithful mirror of economic and political change in this country, but it is a glass through which much has been seen darkly. This study is an attempt to improve the view. It traces the administration of the tariff through Canadian history, and provides the first complete treatment of the subject and its significance for the country's commerce.Dr. Blake's ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Inventories and the Business Cycle

    Series series Heritage
    This study falls into two parts. Part I contains a theoretical analysis of the relation of inventories and inventory fluctuations to the business cycle. It begins with a brief survey of the treatment of inventories in the literature of business cycles. Then a theoretical model of the economic system is developed as a basis for judging the nature and importance of inventory fluctuations in the ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • On Understanding Russia

    by F. James ...
    Series series Heritage
    As an outstanding educator and economist, Dr. F. Cyril James is particularly well qualified to observe modern Russia, and to comment upon it for Western readers. While he disclaims any right to speak with authority on the basis of his recent tour, the reader will quickly realize that he was actually given exceptional opportunities to see Soviet life, economy, and education – visiting some places ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Canada and the New International Economy

    Three Essays

    Series series Heritage
    The essays presented here arose from a strong feeling that it is very important at the present moment to stimulate thought in Canada on our position in the developing world economy. The authors have been concerned about the inward-looking emphasis in recent Canadian discussions of policy and are asking if a "status quo" approach to commerce is desirable or possible at a time when other nations are ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Practical Exporting and Importing in Canada

    by J. R. Arnold ...
    Series series Heritage
    As every schoolboy knows, Canada is one of the larger trading countries of the world but, from the point of view of balancing her international merchandise trade payments, she does not export enough. The purpose of this book is to describe, not in broad economic terms, but in daily practical detail, the work of the exporter and importer. Pitfalls abound for the unwary trader, and Mr. Arnold knows ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Fund Agreement in the Courts Vol.I

    This volume contains discussions of the body of cases in which the IMF Articles of Agreement have a bearing on issues before the courts. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Conference on Statistics 1960

    Papers

    Edited by E.F. Beach, J.C. Weldon ...
    Series series Heritage
    In 1958 the Canadian Political Science Association established a committee to look into ways and means of improving statistical research in the social sciences in Canada. One of the ways in which the committee thought this could be done was by establishing an annual forum where papers could be presented and discussed. Eight papers given at the first Conference at Queen's University are contained ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The Employment Forecast Survey

    Series series Heritage
    In this report Professor Hartle presents the findings of a series of investigations that have been carried out, partly under the auspices and partly with the co-operation, of the Canadian Department of Labour. The object of the investigations, the Employment Forecast Survey, was initiated by the Economics and Research Branch of that Department in 1946 to obtain information about the future levels ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Canada in a Changing World Economy

    by Harry Johnson ...
    Series series Heritage
    The echoes of Laurier's remarks about Canada and the twentieth century are taking a long time to fade away. It is one of the purposes of Professor Johnson's Alan B. Plaunt Lectures (given at Carleton University in 1962) to silence them, for they can prove dangerous and misleading—like a siren song—in the formulation of Canadian economic policy at this time. The success of the Common Market, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Fiscal Adjustment and Economic Development

    A Case Study of Nova Scotia

    Series series Heritage
    This study is an attempt to find a solution to the problem of fiscal adjustment between a province or a state and its municipalities–a pressing problem throughout Canada and the United States and in many other countries in view of the great disparities in the revenue-raising capacity of municipalities, their limited tax bases, and the pressure on them to provide higher levels of public services. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD