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  • Global Big Business and the Chinese Brewing Industry

    by Yuantao Guo ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy
    From the 1970s to the 1990s, China implemented a wide array of industrial policies to build up indigenous big business groups in their attempts to ‘catch-up’ with the industries of the developed world. With its entry into the WTO, China is under huge pressure to pursue the market-friendly policies advocated by the advanced economies. This is the first book in English that applies the theories of ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

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  • Utopia for Realists

    How We Can Build the Ideal World

    by Rutger Bregman ...
    Universal basic income. A 15-hour workweek. Open borders. Does it sound too good to be true? One of Europe's leading young thinkers shows how we can build an ideal world today."A more politically radical Malcolm Gladwell." -- New York TimesAfter working all day at jobs we often dislike, we buy things we don't need. Rutger Bregman, a Dutch historian, reminds us it needn't be this way -- and in some ... Read more

    Was $12.99 CAD Now $2.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Every Nation for Itself

    What Happens When No One Leads the World

    by Ian Bremmer ...
    G-Zero — \JEE-ZEER-oh\ —nA world order in which no single country or durable alliance of countries can meet the challenges of global leadership. What happens when the G20 doesn’t work and the G7 is history.If the worst threatened—a rogue nuclear state with a horrible surprise, a global health crisis, the collapse of financial institutions from New York to Shanghai and Mumbai—where would the world ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Buyout of America

    How Private Equity Is Destroying Jobs and Killing the American Economy

    by Josh Kosman ...
    An authoritative exposé of the mysterious and potentially dangerous world of private equityFew people realize that the top private equity firms, such as Blackstone Group, Carlyle Group, and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, have become the nation’s largest employers through the businesses they own. Using leveraged buyouts that load their acquired companies with loans, private equity firms have generated ... Read more

    Was $15.99 CAD Now $11.99 CAD

  • The Perils of Prosperity

    1914–32

    by William E. Leuchtenburg ...
    "An orthodox—and excellent interpretive history of the stirring years 1914–32" in the United States ( New York Times )."This book gives us a rare opportunity to enjoy the matured interpretation of an American Historian who has returned to the story and seen how recent decades have added meaning and vividness to this epoch of our history." —Daniel J. Boorstin, from the PrefaceBeginning with Woodrow ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Better, Stronger, Faster

    The Myth of American Decline . . . and the Rise of a New Economy

    by Daniel Gross ...
    Financial meltdown, a deep recession, and political polarization—combined with strong growth outside the United States—have led to a global bubble of pessimism surrounding America’s economic prospects. Bloated with debt, and outpaced by China and other emerging markets, the United States has been left for dead as an economic force. But in this time of grim predictions, Daniel Gross, Yahoo! ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Arts (Entering the Shift Age, eBook 8)

    by David Houle ...
    We are leaving the Information Age and transitioning into the Shift Age, a time of transformation and change that offers both great risk and incredible opportunity. In Entering the Shift Age, David Houle identifies and explains the dynamics and forces that have shaped our world and will continue to reshape our world for the next 20 years. He shows how the Shift Age means a world fully global yet ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • Boom Town Blues: Elliot Lake

    Collapse and Revival in a Single-Industry Community

    Edited by Anne-Marie Mawhiney, Jane Pitblado ...
    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 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Exit Strategy: Ending the Tyranny of Finance

    by Giulio Tremonti ...
    From Italy’s former minister of economy and finance, a provocative and galvanizing jeremiad on the Euro crisis and the global economic status quo. As Europe’s debt crisis persists and the aftershocks of the 2008 collapse hinder recovery across the globe, Giulio Tremonti underscores the dangers that unchecked financial markets pose to democracy, and explains what nations must do to protect their ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • A New Model of the Economy

    by Brian Hodgkinson ...
    This book offers a radical revision of modern economic theory. Its starting point is the existing body of both micro and macro economics, as developed in such textbooks as Economics by Begg, Fischer and Dornbusch and Positive Economics by Lipsey and Chrystal. Following a similar framework to these books, it adjusts the whole range of theory by introducing some new concepts and other earlier ones ... Read more

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  • Inflation-Conscious Investments

    Avoid the most common investment pitfalls

    by 50minutes ...
    Series series Management & Marketing
    Understand inflation in no time! Find out everything you need to know about making informed investment choices with this practical and accessible guide.Inflation is an important consideration for anyone looking to make a smart investment, as it will affect the real value of the money involved and can also have a direct effect on interest rates. However, many investors fail to take it into account, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Industrial Sunset

    The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969-1984

    by Steven High ...
    Series series Heritage
    Plant shutdowns in Canada and the United States from 1969 to 1984 led to an ongoing and ravaging industrial decline of the Great Lakes Region. Industrial Sunset offers a comparative regional analysis of the economic and cultural devastation caused by the shutdowns, and provides an insightful examination of how mill and factory workers on both sides of the border made sense of their own ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD