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  • Macro Socio-economics: From Theory to Activism

    From Theory to Activism

    by David Sciulli ...
    Contributors to this volume respond to the normative capsule framing economic behaviour that Amitai Etzioni has explored. The text also looks at his works on organisations, public policy, socio-economics and communitarianism. ... Read more

    $48.08 CAD

  • Corporate Power in Civil Society

    by David Sciulli ...
    The corporate mega-mergers of the 1980s and 1990s raise many troubling questions for social scientists and legal scholars. Do corporate globalism and the new, streamlined corporation help or hinder the development of civil society? Does the new power that increasingly deregulated businesses wield undermine the rights of citizens, or is this threat being exaggerated? Who has the authority to get ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

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    by Robert J. Shiller ...
    The reputation of the financial industry could hardly be worse than it is today in the painful aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. New York Times best-selling economist Robert Shiller is no apologist for the sins of finance--he is probably the only person to have predicted both the stock market bubble of 2000 and the real estate bubble that led up to the subprime mortgage meltdown. But in this ... Read more

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  • Why Government Fails So Often

    And How It Can Do Better

    by Peter H. Schuck ...
    How government can implement more successful policies, more oftenFrom healthcare to workplace and campus conduct, the federal government is taking on ever more responsibility for managing our lives. At the same time, Americans have never been more disaffected with Washington, seeing it as an intrusive, incompetent, wasteful giant. Ineffective policies are caused by deep structural factors ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Tools of Government

    A Guide to the New Governance

    Edited by Lester M. Salamon ...
    The Tools of Government is the first professional guide to the principles and practices of public administration in an age when governments no longer provide many services--but arrange for others to do so. Characterized by extensive collaboration among levels of government and between government and the private sector, this new approach to solving public problems presents many new important issues ... Read more

    $58.99 CAD

  • 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

    $24.99 CAD

  • Philanthropy in Democratic Societies

    History, Institutions, Values

    Edited by Rob Reich, Chiara Cordelli, Lucy Bernholz ...
    Philanthropy is everywhere. In 2013, in the United States alone, some $330 billion was recorded in giving, from large donations by the wealthy all the way down to informal giving circles. We tend to think of philanthropy as unequivocally good, but as the contributors to this book show, philanthropy is also an exercise of power. And like all forms of power, especially in a democratic society, it ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Finance Ethics

    Critical Issues in Theory and Practice

    by John R. Boatright ...
    Series Book 11 - Robert W. Kolb Series
    A groundbreaking exploration of the critical ethical issues in financial theory and practiceCompiled by volume editor John Boatright, Finance Ethics consists of contributions from scholars from many different finance disciplines.It covers key issues in financial markets, financial services, financial management, and finance theory, and includes chapters on market regulation, due diligence, ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Middle Income Access to Justice

    by M. Trebilcock, Lorne Sossin, Anthony Duggan ...
    Though most conceptions of the rule of law assume equality before the law – and hence equal access to the justice system – this basic right is not being met for many low and middle income Canadians. This book focuses on the problem of civil access to justice for middle income earners – those whose household income is high enough to disqualify them from legal aid but not high enough to cover the ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Wealth By Stealth

    Corporate Crime, Corporate Law, and the Perversion of Democracy

    by Harry Glasbeek ...
    How is it that corporations are able to behave irresponsibly, criminally, and undemocratically? Wealth by Stealth is a scathing introduction to the operations of the modern corporation, written by a corporate lawyer. Many writers point to the growth of undemocratic corporate power. Glasbeek takes these observations further and outlines clearly how corporations become so powerful. He also shows how ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Preventing Regulatory Capture

    Special Interest Influence and How to Limit it

    Edited by Daniel Carpenter, David A. Moss ...
    When regulations (or lack thereof) seem to detract from the common good, critics often point to regulatory capture as a culprit. In some academic and policy circles it seems to have assumed the status of an immutable law. Yet for all the ink spilled describing and decrying capture, the concept remains difficult to nail down in practice. Is capture truly as powerful and unpreventable as the ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • The Divine Right of Capital

    Dethroning the Corporate Aristocracy

    by Marjorie Kelly ...
    Why "wealth bias" is a holdover from a pre-democratic past—and how to restore a healthier balance of power: "Thought-provoking . . . well-documented and readable." — Library JournalWealth inequality, corporate welfare, and industrial pollution are symptoms—the fevers and chills of the economy. The underlying illness, says Business Ethics magazine founder Marjorie Kelly, is shareholder primacy: ... Read more

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