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The next Canada: in search of our future nation
By Myrna Kostash. 2000
Are young Canadians becoming increasingly disenfranchised by global corporations, and losing their sense of national identity? Myrna Kostash, in an…
attempt to validate or dismantle these claims, went across the country interviewing a diverse group of young professionals. She also attempted to see how the younger generation's ideals compared to those of her own, who had come of age in the 1960's and 70's. Talking to everyone from auto-workers and artists to investment brokers, union organizers and television producers, Kostash then interprets her findings and forecasts the prospects of a national identity for future Canadians. 2000.Fox introduces a new wave of economists and scholars who no longer teach that investors are rational or that the…
markets are always right. Many of them now agree that the efficient markets theory is wrong and that it's given way to counterintuitive hypotheses about human behaviour, psychological models of decision making, and the irrationality of the markets. In his treatment of the history of the world's markets, Fox uncovers the new ideas that may come to drive the market in the century ahead. 2009.The magic makers: magic and sorcery through the ages
By David Carroll. 1974
A journey into the world of magic and the lives of its magicians, from ancient times to the present. Explains…
the difference between white and black magic and where magic begins and where it ends. 1974.The long tail: why the future of business is selling less of more
By Chris Anderson. 2006
The logic of life: uncovering the new economics of everything
By Tim Harford. 2008
If humans are so clever, why do we smoke and gamble, or take drugs, or fall in love? Is this…
really rational behaviour? And how come your boss is so overpaid? In fact, the behaviour of even the unlikeliest of individuals - prostitutes, drug addicts, racists and revolutionaries - complies with economic logic, taking into account future costs and benefits, even if we don't quite realise it. We are rational beings after all. 2008.La sorcellerie au Québec, du XVIIe au XIXe siècle ((Connaissance).)
By Robert-Lionel Séguin. 1978
Les travailleurs face au pouvoir
By Louis Favreau. 1972
Ce livre s'adresse d'abord et avant tout aux militants du mouvement ouvrier québécois. Il est un instrument de travail pour…
les militants préoccupés de relier les luttes immédiates qu'ils mènent à partir de leur syndicat, de leur coopérative, de leur comité de citoyens aux luttes à faire pour transformer en profondeur les structures économiques et politiques du Québec. 1972.La sorcière
By Jules Michelet. 1966
Michelet, historien et poète, nous raconte la sorcière médiévale. Pour lui, la sorcellerie était tout simplement une protestation de l'esprit…
de liberté contre celui de soumission représenté par l'Église Inquisitrice. 1966, c1862.An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations (Modern Library college editions)
By Adam Smith, Edwin Cannan, Richard F Teichgraeber. 1965
The philosopher's theories of value, population and distribution had tremendous influence on such men as Thomas Malthus and Karl Marx.…
First published in 1776. 1965. If you request this book on CD it will be on 2 or more CDs. You must play the first CD to the end before playing the next CD.Le travail noir et l'ébconomie de demain
By Alfred Sauvy, Rosine Klatzmann, Anita Hirsch. 1984
Le nouvel état industriel: essai sur le système économique américain ((Bibliothèque des sciences humaines))
By John Kenneth Galbraith. 1967
Le système du monde, du XVe siècle à nos jours
By Immanuel Wallerstein. 1980
Le capitalisme mondial ((Économie en liberté, ISSN 0768-0988).)
By Charles Albert Michalet. 1976
Simple, comme l'économie ((Champs, ISSN 0151-8084 ; 26. Champ historique))
By Alain Dubuc. 1987
The mystery of capital: why capitalism triumphs in the West and fails everywhere else
By Hernando De Soto. 2000
The author explains capitalism's failure in developing countries and offers a practical plan for transforming weak economies. Observing that citizens…
of these nations often lack registered titles to their property, he argues that governments must establish legally integrated systems of ownership and markets to convert work and savings to capital and reward individual enterprise. 2000.Witches and witch-hunts: a history of persecution
By Milton Meltzer. 1999
Examines witch-hunts around the world from medieval Europe to the present day. Reveals how innocent people become accused of imaginary…
crimes due to fear, ignorance, and mass hysteria. Includes the Salem witch trials, Shakespeare's witches, and twentieth-century examples of persecution. For junior high and older readers. c1999.The worldly philosophers: the lives, times, and ideas of the great economic thinkers
By Robert L Heilbroner. 1967
The fearsome dilemma: simultaneous inflation and unemployment
By Alex N McLeod. 1994
An economist discusses the problem of how inflation and unemployment have been managed since 1939. McLeod notes that while inflation…
has been controlled in most industrialized countries, economic output has remained below capacity, and so unemployment has been high. McLeod argues that the instruments now used to control inflation are inadequate, and often make unemployment worse. He presents several possible approaches which might avoid this dilemma. 1994.The affluent society
By John Kenneth Galbraith. 1958
Conventional wisdom has it that John Kenneth Galbraith's "The Affluent Society" spawned the neoliberalism we see in Bill Clinton, Tony…
Blair, and other world leaders. The economist's prose, lofty but still easily manageable, laid down the gauntlet for the post-cold war class struggle that was still far in the future in 1958. Galbraith saw the widening gap between the richest and the poorest as an emergent threat to economic stability, and proposed significant investment in parks, transportation, education, and other public amenities - what we now call infrastructure - to ameliorate these differences and postpone depression and revolution indefinitely. 1958.Shooting the hippo: death by deficit and other Canadian myths
By Linda McQuaig. 1995
No subject has dominated Canadian politics so completely as the national deficit. McQuaig examines the policies behind the government's handling…
of the deficit, arguing that current policies of reducing the deficit are badly flawed and could cause irreparable harm to our society and economy. 1995.