The Thin Edge of Innovation
Metro Vancouver’s Evolving Economy
The Thin Edge of Innovation charts the origins, potential, and pitfalls of Metro Vancouver’s entrepreneur-led innovation economy, including the tremendous growth of high-tech, apparel, and consumer-oriented life-style businesses in the city.
Born with a Copper Spoon
A Global History of Copper, 1830–1980
Born with a Copper Spoon tells the fascinating and far-reaching story of one of the world’s most important metals.
Globalization, Poverty, and Income Inequality
Insights from Indonesia
Globalization, Poverty, and Income Inequality uses diverse empirical approaches to reveal the sometimes unexpected effects of trade and globalization on poverty and inequality.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Big Steel
Technology, Trade, and Survival in a Global Market
Big Steel examines trade, competition, and survival in a key industry under globalizing pressures.
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.
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.
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?