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Social Democracy, Capitalism, and Competition

By (author) Marcel Boyer
Categories: Political economy

Our social democracies and welfare states face economic and governance challenges that threaten their very survival. Against this backdrop, Social Democracy, Capitalism, and Competition argues that a true ...

Earth for All

The economic operating system keeps crashing. It’s time to upgrade to a new one.

Five decades ago, The Limits to Growth shocked the world by showing that population and industrial growth were pushing ...

Civilizing the State

By (author) John Restakis
Categories: Political economy

The liberal state is dead, long live the partner state

Across the world, the liberal nation state is on its knees. Rising inequality, deep political polarization, and the pervasive power of corporations ...

China Unbound

By (author) Joanna Chiu
Categories: Geopolitics

As the world’s second-largest economy, China is extending its influence across the globe, making dramatic moves to become a dominant power. In China Unbound, award-winning foreign correspondent Joanna ...

Organizing the 1%

Canada is ruled by an organized minority of the 1%, a class of corporate owners, managers and bankers who amass wealth by controlling the large corporations at the core of the economy. But corporate power ...

From Corporate Globalization to Global Co-operation

By (author) Tom Webb
Categories: Political economy

The world needs a realistic alternative to capitalism that is equitable, sustainable and innovative. In a word, that alternative is co-operatives.

More than 250 million people around the world work for ...

Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy in Canada

In probing the impact of Alberta’s powerful oil lobby on the health of democracy in the province, contributors to the volume engage with an ongoing discussion of the erosion of political liberalism ...

The Servant State

By (author) Geoffrey McCormack & Thom Workman
Foreword by David McNally
Categories: Political economy

In The Servant State, McCormack and Workman explore Canada’s experience through the “age of austerity” and highlight how this experience has been shaped by the exigencies of capitalist development ...

The Great Revenue Robbery

For decades, the right has flooded the airwaves and taken over the political podiums with its anti-tax hysteria. But Canadians are waking up to the simple truth that taxes are the price we pay for civilization, ...

Global Capitalism in Crisis

By (author) Murray E.G.  Smith
Categories: Political economy

Providing a Marxian analysis of the origins, implications, and scope of the current economic downturn, this critique of global capitalism argues that the ongoing crisis is not merely a result of overProduction ...