Relocating Middle Powers
Australia and Canada in a Changing World Order
This book examines how two middle powers, Australia and Canada, are grappling with the difficult process of relocating themselves in the rapidly changing international economy.
Rethinking Federalism
Citizens, Markets, and Governments in a Changing World
Interdisciplinary in approach, this volume explores federalism in the 1990s, bringing together leading scholars from law, economics, sociology, and political science to comment on federalism's strengths, weaknesses, and potential in a variety of contexts.
Regionalism, Multilateralism, and the Politics of Global Trade
This volume explores the changing relationship between regionalism and multilateralism and examine the implications for national policy in a global trading system.
Independence and Economic Security in Old Age
The product of a three-year research program, this work focuses on the economic and social implications of aging at the level of the individual and of society as a whole.
Globalization and Well-Being
Throughout this concise and elegant book, John Helliwell emphasizes well-being as an explicit focus for research and for public policies.
In the Long Run We're All Dead
The Canadian Turn to Fiscal Restraint
A superb analysis of how the decline of Canadian Keynesianism has made way for the emergence of politics organized around balanced budgets.
Second Growth
Community Economic Development in Rural British Columbia
A look at historical and contemporary restructuring, linking development of rural communities with resource development and Aboriginal marginalization.
Dimensions of Inequality in Canada
Is Canada becoming a more polarized society? Or is it a kind-hearted nation that takes care of its disadvantaged?
The Option of Urbanism
Investing in a New American Dream
Shows how the American Dream is shifting to include cities as well as suburbs and how the financial and real estate communities need to respond to build communities that are more environmentally, socially, and financially sustainable.
The OECD and Transnational Governance
A timely and insightful volume, The OECD and Transnational Governance fills an important gap in the literature on global governance.
Big Steel
Technology, Trade, and Survival in a Global Market
Big Steel examines trade, competition, and survival in a key industry under globalizing pressures.
Women and Property in Urban India
An intimate exploration of the opportunities and constraints faced by low-income women in Ahmedabad, as throughout the Global South, in securing access to landed property.
Brewed in Japan
The Evolution of the Japanese Beer Industry
This book explores the many challenges that faced the early production and sale of beer in Japan, including its evolution from a uniquely Western beverage into a thoroughly domestic Japanese commodity by the post-Second World War era.
Aluminum Ore
The Political Economy of the Global Bauxite Industry
An exploration of one little-known mineral, and the social, political, and economic forces that shaped both its history and the twentieth century.
Connecting to Change the World
Harnessing the Power of Networks for Social Impact
Nuts-and-bolts advice for organizations on how to build relationships and create networks to enhance their reach and effectiveness, written by experts in the non-profit world.
Buying Happiness
The Emergence of Consumer Consciousness in English Canada
Buying Happiness explores the different ways that key public thinkers represented, conceptualized, and institutionalized new ideas about consumption, which shaped economic and social policy and influenced behaviour.
Inalienable Properties
The Political Economy of Indigenous Land Reform
Inalienable Properties explores the contrasting approaches taken by local leaders to property rights and development in four Indigenous communities.