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  • Black Wealth / White Wealth

    A New Perspective on Racial Inequality

    by Melvin Oliver, Thomas Shapiro ...
    The award-winning Black Wealth / White Wealth offers a powerful portrait of racial inequality based on an analysis of private wealth. Melvin Oliver and Thomas Shapiro's groundbreaking research analyzes wealth - total assets and debts rather than income alone - to uncover deep and persistent racial inequality in America, and they show how public policies have failed to redress the problem.First ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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  • Tax Is Not a Four-Letter Word

    A Different Take on Taxes in Canada

    Edited by Alex Himelfarb, Jordan Himelfarb ...
    Series Book 3 - Canadian Commentaries
    Taxes connect us to one another, to the common good, and to the future. This is a book about taxes: who pays what and who gets what. More than that, it’s about the role of government, about citizenship and our collective well-being, about the Canada we want. The contributors, leading Canadian practitioners and scholars, explore how taxes have become a political “no-go zone” and how changes in ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Zombie Economics

    How Dead Ideas Still Walk among Us (New in Paper)

    by John Quiggin ...
    In the graveyard of economic ideology, dead ideas still stalk the land.The recent financial crisis laid bare many of the assumptions behind market liberalism--the theory that market-based solutions are always best, regardless of the problem. For decades, their advocates dominated mainstream economics, and their influence created a system where an unthinking faith in markets led many to view ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk among Us

    by John Quiggin ...
    In the graveyard of economic ideology, dead ideas still stalk the land. The recent financial crisis laid bare many of the assumptions behind market liberalism--the theory that market-based solutions are always best, regardless of the problem. For decades, their advocates dominated mainstream economics, and their influence created a system where an unthinking faith in markets led many to view ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Retirement In Canada

    by Thomas R. Klassen ...
    Series series In Canada
    A century ago, the average Canadian lifespan was 60; today, we can expect to live 20 years longer than that. And recent generations have witnessed other major social shifts in Canada, from women entering the workforce to alterations in traditional career patterns, from evolutions in the once-inviolable nuclear family to the decline of employer pension schemes. As the arc of our lives continues to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Hidden Cost of Being African American

    How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality

    by Thomas M. Shapiro ...
    Thomas Shapiro reveals how the lack of family assets--inheritance, home equity, stocks, bonds, savings accounts, and other investments-- along with continuing racial discrimination in crucial areas like homeownership dramatically impact the everyday lives of many black families, reversing gains earned in schools and on jobs, and perpetuating the cycle of poverty in which far too many find ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • In and Out of Crisis

    The Global Financial Meltdown and Left Alternatives

    by Leo Panitch, Sam Gindin, Greg Albo ...
    Series series Spectre
    Our world is in the grips of the most calamitous economic crisis since the Great Depression—and its epicenter is the imperial United States, where hallowed investment banks have disappeared overnight, giants of industry have gone bankrupt, and the financial order has been shaken to the core.While many around the globe are increasingly wondering if another world is indeed possible, few are mapping ... Read more

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  • Toxic Inequality

    How America's Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, Deepens the Racial Divide, and Threatens Our Future

    by Thomas M. Shapiro ...
    From a leading authority on race and public policy, a deeply researched account of how families rise and fall todaySince the Great Recession, most Americans' standard of living has stagnated or declined. Economic inequality is at historic highs. But inequality's impact differs by race; African Americans' net wealth is just a tenth that of white Americans, and over recent decades, white families ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Globalization of Inequality

    by François Bourguignon ...
    Why national and international equality matter and what we can do to ensure a fairer worldIn The Globalization of Inequality, distinguished economist and policymaker François Bourguignon examines the complex and paradoxical links between a vibrant world economy that has raised the living standard of over half a billion people in emerging nations such as China, India, and Brazil, and the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • After Piketty

    Edited by Heather Boushey, J. Bradford DeLong, Marshall Steinbaum ...
    Are Thomas Piketty’s analyses of inequality on target? Where should researchers go from here in exploring the ideas he pushed to the forefront of global conversation? In After Piketty, a cast of economists and other social scientists tackle these questions in dialogue with Piketty, in what is sure to be a much-debated book in its own right. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Urbanization And Growth

    by Buckley Robert M.; Clarke Annez Patricia; Spence Michael ...
    • Why is productivity higher in cities? • Does urbanization cause growth or does growth cause urbanization? • Do countries achieve rapid growth or high incomes without urbanization? • How can policy makers reap the benefits of urbanization without paying too high a cost? • Does supporting urbanization imply neglecting rural areas? • Why do so few governments welcome urbanization? • What should ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The New Economics of Inequality and Redistribution

    by Samuel Bowles ...
    Series series Federico Caffè Lectures
    Economists warn that policies to level the economic playing field come with a hefty price tag. But this so-called 'equality-efficiency trade-off' has proven difficult to document. The data suggest, instead, that the extraordinary levels of economic inequality now experienced in many economies are detrimental to the economy. Moreover, recent economic experiments and other evidence confirm that most ... Read more

    $31.99 USD