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  • Economics in One Virus

    An Introduction to Economic Reasoning through COVID-19

    by Ryan A. Bourne ...
    "A truly excellent book that explains where our pandemic response went wrong, and how we can understand those failings using the tools of economics." —Tyler Cowen, Holbert L. Harris Chair of Economics at George Mason University and coauthor of the blog Marginal RevolutionHave you ever stopped to wonder why hand sanitizer was missing from your pharmacy for months after the COVID-19 pandemic hit? ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • In Focus

    The Case for Privatising the BBC

    by Ryan Bourne, Tim Congdon, Stephen Davies, Cento Veljanovski ...
    The BBC holds a special place in the world of broadcasting. It derives its funding from a compulsory levy on people who may not even use the service. The protection it receives is justified on the grounds that it contributes to national welfare because of its role in ‘public service broadcasting’. The authors of this book argue that the BBC’s funding model is becoming untenable as technology ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Flaws and Ceilings

    Price Controls and the Damage They Cause

    by Christopher Coyne, Rachel Coyne, Philip Booth, Ryan Bourne, Stephen Davies, Robert Miller, Colin Robinson, Steven Schwartz, W. Stanley Siebert, Christopher Snowdon, Richard Wellings ...
    Series series Hobart Paperback
    Price controls across many sectors are currently being hotly debated. New controls in the housing market, more onerous minimum wages, minimum prices for alcohol, and freezes on energy prices are very high up the agenda of most politicians at the moment. Even without any further controls, wages, university fees, railway fares and many financial products already have their prices at least partly ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The War on Prices

    How Popular Misconceptions about Inflation, Prices, and Value Create Bad Policy

    Edited by Ryan A. Bourne ...
    Was inflation’s recent spike exacerbated by corporate greed? Do rent controls really help the needy? Are U.S. health care prices set in a Wild West marketplace? Do women get paid less than men for the same work, and do they pay more than men for the same products? The War on Prices is an eye-opening book that answers all these burning questions and more, as top economists debunk popular ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Taxation, Government Spending and Economic Welfare

    by Philip Booth, Ryan Bourne, Rory Meakin, Lucy Minford, Patrick Minford, David B. Smith ...
    Amidst the debates about ‘austerity’ a number of vital debates in public finance have been sidelined. Because the reductions in government spending – small though they have been so far- have been designed to reduce the government’s borrowing requirement, there has been little discussion of whether the size of the state should be reduced in order to facilitate long-run reductions in the burden of ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • They Do Exist!

    by Claire Grasse, Mia Lazarewicz, John M. Bourne, Kristen Tsetsi, Ryan Bennett, Tricia Spencer, Bill Westhead, Julia Halprin Jackson, Lou Dischler, Catharine Lev, Karin B. Schlenker, Qing Yang ...
    How many times have you heard someone say there's nothing good to read? Unfortunately, We hear it way too often from know-it-alls who are sure all the great stories have gone the way of the dinosaurs. And that sends shivers down our backs.Nothing good to read. Good grief, is there a more depressing phrase than that? Well, there might be. Like, "The dog just ate my last pair of underwear" or "Didn ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Taking Economics Seriously

    by Dean Baker ...
    Series series Boston Review Books
    A leading economist's exploration of what our economic arrangements might look like if we applied basic principles without ideological blinders.There is nothing wrong with economics, Dean Baker contends, but economists routinely ignore their own principles when it comes to economic policy. What would policy look like if we took basic principles of mainstream economics seriously and applied them ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • globalization

    n. the irrational fear that someone in China will take your job

    by Judd Kahn, Bruce C. Greenwald ...
    In Globalization, authors Bruce Greenwald and Judd Kahn cut through the myths surrounding globalization and look more closely at its real impact, presenting a more accurate picture of the present status of globalization and its future consequences. Page by page, they uncover the real facts about globalization and answer the most important questions it raises, including: Will globalization increase ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The New Great Depression

    Winners and Losers in a Post-Pandemic World

    by James Rickards ...
    A Wall Street Journal and National Bestseller!The man who predicted the worst economic crisis in US history shows you how to survive it.The current crisis is not like 2008 or even 1929. The New Depression that has emerged from the COVID pandemic is the worst economic crisis in U.S. history. Most fired employees will remain redundant. Bankruptcies will be common, and banks will buckle under the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Animal Spirits

    How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism (New in Paper)

    by George A. Akerlof, Robert J. Shiller ...
    The global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are imperiling the wealth of nations today. From blind faith in ever-rising housing prices to plummeting confidence in capital markets, "animal spirits" are driving financial events worldwide. In this book, acclaimed economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller challenge the economic wisdom that got us into ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • In the Tall Grass

    by Stephen King, Joe Hill ...
    Mile 81 meets “N.” in this novella collaboration between Stephen King and Joe Hill—also made into a Netflix film!As USA TODAY said of Stephen King’s Mile 81: “Park and scream. Could there be any better place to set a horror story than an abandoned rest stop?” In the Tall Grass begins with a sister and brother who pull off to the side of the road after hearing a young boy crying for help from ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Chronic Condition

    Why Canada's Health Care System Needs To Be Dragged Into The 21c

    by Jeffrey Simpson ...
    Medicare is the third rail of Canadian politics. Touch it and you die. Every politician knows this truism, which is why no one wants to debate it. Privately, many of them understand that the health care system, which costs about $200 billion a year in public and private money, cannot continue as it is-increasingly ill-adapted to an aging population with public costs growing faster than government ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD