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  • Not Fair

    Inequality of Opportunity in Canada

    by Lars Osberg ...
    Series series UTP Insights
    Not Fair offers a fresh perspective on the barriers to true equal opportunity in Canada. Challenging the conventional focus on labour market earnings, this book examines both sides of GDP – income from labour and income from capital – highlighting the critical role of inherited wealth in sustaining Canada’s financial aristocracy of great family fortunes. Through a compelling exploration of both ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Scandalous Rise of Inequality in Canada

    by Lars Osberg ...
    There are more billionaires than ever in Canada – and they are capturing an ever-growing share of the country’s wealth. Meanwhile 90% of Canadians are steadily losing ground.Understanding how and why this is happening has been the focus of a lifetime of research by economist LARS OSBERG. In this book, building on his earlier book The Age of Increasing Inequality, he describes how inequality has ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Economic Inequality in the United States

    by Lars Osberg ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1984, this study explores multiple theoretical perspectives as well as critically analysing the most recent evidence at the time to try and find a full explanation for inequality in the United States. Arguments of neoclassical economists and Marxist and institutional structuralists are considered by Osberg as well as putting forward his own model. Osberg uses his findings ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Economic Inequality and Poverty

    International Perspectives

    by Lars Osberg ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 1991: This collection focuses on the concepts and measurements of inequality, poverty, the concentration of wealth, and the implications of these issues for social policies. A special feature of this work is the international comparisons of the evidence on economic inequality. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Richer and More Equal

    A New History of Wealth in the West

    by Daniel Waldenström ...
    Once there were princes and peasants and very few between. The extremes of wealth and poverty are still with us, but that shouldn't blind us to the fact our societies have been utterly transformed for the better over the past century. As Daniel Waldenström makes clear in this authoritative account of wealth accumulation and inequality in the modern west, we are today both significantly richer and ... Read more

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  • Retirement In Canada

    by Thomas R. Klassen ...
    Series series In Canada
    A century ago, the average Canadian lifespan was 60; today, we can expect to live 20 years longer than that. And recent generations have witnessed other major social shifts in Canada, from women entering the workforce to alterations in traditional career patterns, from evolutions in the once-inviolable nuclear family to the decline of employer pension schemes. As the arc of our lives continues to ... Read more

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  • What Would Keynes Do?

    How the greatest economists would solve your everyday problems

    by Tejvan Pettinger ...
    Have you ever wondered what Adam Smith would have to say about you playing the lottery? Or whether Jeremy Bentham could cure your hangover (through economics)? Ever pondered over what Milton Friedman might get you for Christmas?By comparing and contrasting what the greatest economists of all time would have to say about 40 questions from your everyday life, What Would Keynes Do? will help you get ... Read more

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  • Caring for Children

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    by Rachel Langford, Patrizia Albanese, Susan Prentice ...
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  • After Piketty

    Edited by Heather Boushey, J. Bradford DeLong, Marshall Steinbaum ...
    Are Thomas Piketty’s analyses of inequality on target? Where should researchers go from here in exploring the ideas he pushed to the forefront of global conversation? In After Piketty, a cast of economists and other social scientists tackle these questions in dialogue with Piketty, in what is sure to be a much-debated book in its own right. ... Read more

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    The Use and Abuse of Statistics in Global Politics

    by Lorenzo Fioramonti ...
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  • Capitalism

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    by Geoffrey Ingham ...
    Series series Key Concepts
    Now with a substantial new postscript on the financial crisisThis book provides a basic introduction to the 'nuts and bolts' of capitalism. It starts by examining the classic accounts of capitalism found in the works of Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Joseph Schumpeter, and John Maynard Keynes. Each placed emphasis on different institutional elements of capitalism - Smith on the market's ... Read more

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