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  • Unwinding Privatization

    Cities and the Restoration of Public Power

    Edited by Alba Alexander, Larry Bennett, Evan McKenzie, Michael A. Pagano ...
    Series series Urban and Industrial Environments
    How remunicipalization can be implemented to restructure urban governance.Across North America, Europe, and the Global South, public services such as water and energy that were once privatized have returned to public sector functions—an intriguing new development known as remunicipalization. Unwinding Privatization, edited by Alba Alexander, Larry Bennett, Evan McKenzie, and Michael Pagano, ... Read more

    $78.39 CAD

  • Private Metropolis

    The Eclipse of Local Democratic Governance

    Edited by Dennis R. Judd, Evan McKenzie, Alba Alexander ...
    Series series Globalization and Community
    Examines the complex ecology of quasi-public and privatized institutions that mobilize and administer many of the political, administrative, and fiscal resources of today’s metropolitan regionsIn recent decades metropolitan regions in the United States have witnessed the rise of multitudes of “shadow governments” that often supersede or replace functions traditionally associated with ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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    Global Capitalism and the Architecture of Government

    by Alasdair Roberts ...
    Even before the global economic crisis of 2007-2009, the logic of discipline was under assault. Faced with many failed reform projects, advocates of discipline realized that they had underestimated the complexity of governmental change. Opponents of discipline emphasized the damage to democratic values that followed from the empowerment of new groups of technocrat-guardians. A sweeping account of ... Read more

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  • The System Worked

    How the World Stopped Another Great Depression

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  • Limitarianism

    The Case Against Extreme Wealth

    by Ingrid Robeyns ...
    ***A NEW YORKER, ESQUIRE, HISTORY TODAY AND THE CONVERSATION BOOK OF THE YEAR*‘The best case I've read for putting an upper limit on the accumulation of wealth’** Richard Wilkinson'One of the most talked-about books to the moment … Limitarianism floats the heretical idea that fixing society isn’t just about saving the poorest from destitution, but about putting a cap on how much the richest are ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • Vulture Capitalism

    Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom

    by Grace Blakeley ...
    Winner of the 2025 Ellen Meiksins Wood PrizeIn the vein of*The Shock DoctrineandEvil Geniuses*, this timely and “galvanizing” (Naomi Klein, New York Times bestselling author) manifesto illustrates how corporate and political power brokers have used capitalism to advance their own interests at the expense of the rest of us—and how we can take back our economy.It’s easy to look at the state ... ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • The Fifteen Biggest Lies about the Economy

    And Everything Else the Right Doesn't Want You to Know about Taxes, Jobs, and Corporate America

    by Joshua Holland ...
    AlterNet editor Joshua Holland demolishes the Right's biggest and most outrageous myths about the economyTaxes kill growth. Labor unions hurt their members. Government regulation destroys jobs. These are just a few of the biggest lies in the web of misinformation spun by conservatives and the Chamber of Commerce. Holland's book dissects each malicious fiction to show how the Right is just plain ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Poor Numbers

    How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do about It

    by Morten Jerven ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Political Economy
    One of the most urgent challenges in African economic development is to devise a strategy for improving statistical capacity. Reliable statistics, including estimates of economic growth rates and per-capita income, are basic to the operation of governments in developing countries and vital to nongovernmental organizations and other entities that provide financial aid to them. Rich countries and ... Read more

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  • In Defense of Housing

    The Politics of Crisis

    by Peter Marcuse, David Madden ...
    In every major city in the world there is a housing crisis. How did this happen and what can we do about it?Everyone needs and deserves housing. But today our homes are being transformed into commodities, making the inequalities of the city ever more acute. Profit has become more important than social need. The poor are forced to pay more for worse housing. Communities are faced with the violence ... Read more

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  • Fixer-Upper

    How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems

    by Jenny Schuetz ...
    Fixer-Upper is the first book assessing how the broad set of local, state, and national housing policies affect people and communities. It does more than describe how yesterday’s policies led to today’s problems. It proposes practical policy changes than can make stable, decent-quality housing more available and affordable for all Americans in all communities.Fixing systemic problems that arose ... Read more

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  • The Social Safety Net

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    by Nora Loreto ...
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    **THE HILL TIMES TOP 100 BOOKS OF 2024Canada’s social safety net is fraying. Why does it feel like everything is collapsing?**Canada is at a crossroads. Social services and politics have been transformed to serve market economies, while Canadians struggle to pay rent, buy food, and find a stable job that pays well enough to cover daily costs. Everywhere we look, things are falling apart, but there ... Read more

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  • The Vanishing Middle Class

    Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy

    by Peter Temin ...
    Why the United States has developed an economy divided between rich and poor—and how racism helped bring this about.The United States is becoming a nation of rich and poor, with few families in the middle. In this book, MIT economist Peter Temin offers an illuminating way to look at the vanishing middle class. Temin argues that American history and politics, particularly slavery and its aftermath, ... Read more

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