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By Ianik Marcil. 2015
Un ouvrage à la fois pédagogique et critique, qui montrera au lecteur que la vision des principaux partis politiques au…
Québec et au Canada sont tous contaminés par une idéologie ultralibérale et trempés de mesures dites d'austérité - et que ces politiques ont des effets néfastes sur tous les citoyens et ont en réalité comme objectif le démantèlement des institutions publiques, voire de l'État. Ce livre s'inscrira dans la réalité contemporaine du Québec et du Canada, sachant qu'en 2015, le gouvernement du Québec présentera un budget qui continuera de mettre à mal les missions de l'État, et qu'il y aura des élections au niveau fédéral qui opposeront essentiellement le PC et le PLC. 2015.By Jane Jacobs. 2000
Jacobs examines the similarities between the growth and change that occurs within an economy, and the growth and changes that…
occur within nature. She argues that through the study of systems found in nature we can better understand economic development.By Naomi Klein. 2007
Klein assails economist Milton Friedman's free-market precepts, as their exponents have applied them to a series of formerly state-dominated economies…
since 1975. She condemns reform programs of the last three decades that have aimed to separate the state from the economy; the process of market liberalization has created a "disaster capitalism complex," consisting of corporations that thrive on catastrophe. Some descriptions of sex and strong language, descriptions of violence. 2007.By Wab Kinew. 2015
When his father was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer, Winnipeg broadcaster and musician Wab Kinew decided to spend a…
year reconnecting with the accomplished but distant aboriginal man who’d raised him. “The Reason You Walk” spans that 2012 year, chronicling painful moments in the past and celebrating renewed hopes and dreams for the future. As Kinew revisits his own childhood in Winnipeg and on a reserve in Northern Ontario, he learns more about his father's traumatic childhood at residential school. Bestseller. Winner of the 2016 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award. 2015.By Herb Belcourt. 2006
Belcourt traces his ancestry directly to a French-Canadian voyageur and his Cree-Métis wife who lived in Ruperts Land after 1800.…
The eldest of ten children, Belcourt grew up in a small log home near Lac Ste. Anne during the Depression. When Belcourt left home at 15 to become a labourer in coal mines and sawmills, his father told him to save his money so he could work for himself, and over the next three decades, Belcourt began a number of small Alberta businesses that prospered and eventually enabled him to make significant contributions to the Métis community. 2006.From the ageing oilfields of Saudi Arabia and the United States to the Canadian tar sands, from the shopping malls…
of Dubai to the shuttered auto plants of North America and Europe, from the made-in-China products on the shelves of the Wal-Mart down the road to the collapse of Wall Street giants, everything is connected to the price of oil. For generations we have built wealth by burning more and more oil, but there is no more cheap oil to burn. The auto industry will never recover from this oil-induced recession, distance will soon cost money, and so will burning carbon - so local economies will be revitalized, as will our cities and neighbourhoods. 2009.By Pankaj Ghemawat. 2011
Reeling from the brutal impacts of the early 21st-century recession, governments and societies everywhere are retrenching and pushing hard for…
increased protectionism. Global economy expert Pankaj Ghemawat details why, while this reaction is understandable, following a protectionist ideology to its fullest will only cause further irreparable harm to world economies. 2011.By Jamie Swift. 1995
Swift analyzes the recent changes in the nature of employment and work in the 1990s. He examines the recent growth…
in the services sector and decline in the goods sector, and discusses the high unemployment of recent years and the "jobless recovery" from the recession of the early 1990s. 1995.By Peter Navarro. 2007
In this course, University of California at Irvine business professor Peter Navarro dissects the coming China wars and their implications…
for all mankind. China's rapid economic growth has serious implications for issues ranging from oil prices and energy security to global warming and environmental pollution, and from U.S. political independence and financial market stability to hot-war military conflict. 2007.By Gérald Fillion, François Delorme. 2014
Qu'on soit aux études, au travail ou à la retraite, l'économie est au coeur de notre vie quotidienne : peu…
de décision se prennent sans qu'il y ait un enjeu économique, et c'est pourquoi il est important d'en comprendre les rouages essentiels. C'est dans cette perspective que ce livre a été conçu. Vous y trouverez 75 questions et réponses qui vous concernent, allant du prix de l'essence à l'acquisition d'une maison en passant par l'achat ou la location d'une voiture, l'écart des prix entre le Canada et les Etats-Unis, les impôts, les taux d'intérêt, le système bancaire et la dette. Ce livre se veut un outil pratique et accessible écrit dans un langage clair et simple pour vous permettre de comprendre les enjeux socio-économiques de la vie d'aujourd'hui. 2014.By Ed Flank Lenny, Lenny Flank. 2011
“This is the first communiqué from the 99 percent. We are occupying Wall Street." With those words, the Occupy Wall…
Street movement announced its presence, and within four weeks, it had spread across the country and around the globe, drastically changing the terms of political debate in the US. Technically savvy, the Occupiers posted events as they happened, presented hopeful pleas for social change and energetic calls to action. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2011.By Edmund Metatawabin, Alexandra Shimo. 2014
A powerful, raw memoir about the abuse former First Nations chief Edmund Metatawabin endured in residential school in the 1960s.…
Even as Metatawabin built the trappings of a successful life, he was tormented by horrific memories. In seeking healing, Metatawabin travelled to southern Alberta. There he learned from elders, participated in native cultural training workshops that emphasize the holistic approach to personhood, and finally faced his alcoholism and PTSD. Now his mission is to help the next generation of residential school survivors. Bestseller. Winner of the 2015 Speaker's Book Award. c2014.By Omar Fassal. 2016
Aborder l'histoire de la finance à travers les scandales permet de comprendre tout le parcours de l'industrie financière, qui agit…
souvent a posteriori afin de corriger les abus. Cela permet également de comprendre le devenir des institutions, qui se dévorent les unes les autres à coups d'acquisitions et ne font qu'une bouchée des malades affaiblis par un scandale. Cela permet enfin de comprendre le développement des produits financiers, qui s'adaptent après chaque scandale pour faire face aux réticences des investisseurs qui ne veulent plus se faire avoir de la même façon. Mais pas de panique, l'escroc est innovateur, et les clients se feront avoir autrement. Le chat et la souris. 2016.By Daniel Cohen. 2006
La société industrielle liait un mode de production et un mode de protection. Elle scellait ainsi l'unité de la question…
économique et de la question sociale. La " société post-industrielle ", elle, consacre leur séparation et marque l'aube d'une ère nouvelle. Daniel Cohen analyse ici les ruptures qui ont conduit le capitalisme du XXIe siècle à la destruction méthodique de cet héritage : innovations technologiques, révolution financière, transformations des modes d'organisation du travail, mondialisation des échanges. En examinant les logiques à l'oeuvre dans ces bouleversements, ces " trois leçons " aident à comprendre les défis du monde à venir. 2006.By Ali Cobby Eckermann. 2012
A memoir that, in bare blunt prose and piercingly lyrical verse, gives witness to the human cost of policies that…
created the Stolen Generations of Indigenous people in Australia. It is a narrative of good and evil, terror and happiness, despair and courage. 2012.By Andrew Ross Sorkin. 2010
From inside the corner office at Lehman Brothers to secret meetings in South Korea, Russia and the corridors of Washington,…
Too Big to Fail is the definitive story of the most powerful men and women in finance and politics grappling with success and failure, ego, greed, and, ultimately, the fate of the world's economy. Includes strong language. 2010.By Kenneth S Rogoff, Carmen M Reinhart. 2009
This work examines financial crises of the past and discusses similarities between these events and the current crisis, presenting and…
comparing historical patterns in bank failures, inflation, debt, currency, housing, employment, and government spending. 2009.By David S Landes. 1998
Explores causes of the disparities in wealth and health that exist among societies, "the greatest single problem and danger facing…
the world." Argues that a nation's prosperity derives from industrial technology, nurtured by supportive cultural values and institutions. Avers that world peace depends on the well-being of all people. 1998.By Raj Patel. 2009
Why do things cost what they do? Patel tracks down the reasons through history, philosophy, neuroscience and sociology, showing why…
prices are always at odds with the true value of the things that matter most to us. Also examines everything from Google to TV and from love to thoughts, to see the gap between price and value by looking at things that are so-called free. Bestseller. c2009.Tim Harford reveals the economics behind everything from supermarkets to insurance companies to airlines in this entertaining and informative book.…
To protect both our wallets and our bank accounts, we must better understand why companies do what they do. 2006.