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  • North America’s Lost Decade?

    by Paul Krugman, David Rosenberg, Lawrence Summers, Ian Bremmer ...
    Series series The Munk Debates
    As stock markets gyrate, Europe lurches from crisis to crisis, and recovery in the United States slows, the future of the North American economy is more uncertain than ever. Can individual entrepreneurship, corporate innovation, and governments create a new era of sustained economic growth? Or, will the ongoing financial crisis, political dysfunction in the United States, and the rise of emerging ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beyond Homeless

    Good Intentions, Bad Outcomes, Transformative Solutions

    Edited by Mary L. G. Theroux, Lawrence J. McQuillan, Adam B. Summers ...
    Entire neighborhoods in cities across the United States have become open-air asylums, drug markets, and impoverished wastelands—where death, misery, crime, addiction, encampments, fires, disease, and even human waste aren't just tolerated but normalized. How is this possible when billions of taxpayer dollars have been funneled into homelessness initiatives such as "Housing First"?The truth is that ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Evolution or Revolution?

    Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy after the Great Recession

    Edited by Olivier Blanchard, Lawrence H. Summers ...
    Leading economists discuss post–financial crisis policy dilemmas, including the dangers of complacency in a period of relative stability.The Great Depression led to the Keynesian revolution and dramatic shifts in macroeconomic theory and macroeconomic policy. Similarly, the stagflation of the 1970s led to the adoption of the natural rate hypothesis and to a major reassessment of the role of ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Progress and Confusion

    The State of Macroeconomic Policy

    Edited by Olivier Blanchard, Raghuram Rajan, Kenneth Rogoff, Lawrence H. Summers ...
    Leading economists consider the shape of future economic policy: will it resume the pre-crisis consensus, or contend with the post-crisis “new normal”?What will economic policy look like once the global financial crisis is finally over? Will it resume the pre-crisis consensus, or will it be forced to contend with a post-crisis “new normal”? Have we made progress in addressing these issues, or does ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • The Opportunity Equation

    How Citizen Teachers Are Combating the Achievement Gap in America's Schools

    by Eric Schwarz ...
    Schwarz, founder of the groundbreaking Citizen Schools program, shares his vision for reducing inequality by pairing successful adults with low-income students.Parental wealth now predicts adult success more than at any point in the last hundred years. And yet as debates about education rage on, and wealth-based achievement gaps grow, too many people fix the blame on one of two convenient ... Read more

    $24.79 CAD

  • Innovation + Equality

    How to Create a Future That Is More Star Trek Than Terminator

    by Joshua Gans, Andrew Leigh ...
    How to get more innovation and more equality.Is economic inequality the price we pay for innovation? The amazing technological advances of the last two decades—in such areas as artificial intelligence, genetics, and materials—have benefited society collectively and rewarded innovators handsomely: we get cool smartphones and technology moguls become billionaires. This contributes to a growing ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • Reconceiving the Gene

    Seymour Benzer's Adventures in Phage Genetics

    by Professor Frederic Lawrence Holmes ...
    This book relates how, between 1954 and 1961, the biologist Seymour Benzer mapped the fine structure of the rII region of the genome of the bacterial virus known as phage T4. Benzer’s accomplishments are widely recognized as a tipping point in mid-twentieth-century molecular biology when the nature of the gene was recast in molecular terms. More often than any other individual, he is considered to ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

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  • The Only Game in Town

    Central Banks, Instability, and Recovering from Another Collapse

    by Mohamed A. El-Erian ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A roadmap to what lies ahead and the decisions we must make now to stave off the next global economic and financial crisis, from one of the world’s most influential economic thinkers and the author of When Markets Collide • Updated, with a new chapter and author’s note“The one economic book you must read now . . . If you want to understand [our] bifurcated world and ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Currency Wars

    The Making of the Next Global Crisis

    by James Rickards ...
    Dive into the gripping world of international ecocomics through American lawyer, investment banker, media commentator, and author, James G. Rickards's expertise and thought-provoking insights.From collapsed paper currencies and hidden agendas of soveriegn wealth funds to the very real threats of national security, James G. Rickards scrutinizes the history and disastrous outcomes of currency wars, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Things That Matter

    Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics

    by Charles Krauthammer ...
    From America’s preeminent columnist, named by the Financial Times the most influential commentator in the nation, a must-have collection of Charles Krauthammer’s essential, timeless writings.A brilliant stylist known for an uncompromising honesty that challenged conventional wisdom at every turn, Krauthammer dazzled readers for decades with his keen insight into politics and government. His weekly ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Civilization

    The West and the Rest

    by Niall Ferguson ...
    **From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower“A dazzling history of Western ideas.”—The Economist“Mr. Ferguson tells his story with characteristic verve and an eye for the felicitous phrase.” —Wall Street Journal“[W]ritten with vitality and verve . . . a tour de force.” —Boston Globe**Western civilization’s rise to global dominance is the single most important ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Unaccountable

    Truth and Lies on Parliament Hill

    by Kevin Page ...
    A unique insider's account of the Harper government so damning that it cannot be ignoredIn March 2008, Kevin Page was appointed by the federal Conservatives to be the country's first Parliamentary Budget Officer. The move fulfilled a Tory campaign promise to deliver greater government transparency and accountability. He was later denounced by the same people who appointed him to scrutinize their ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD