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by N.C. Bonsor
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1977
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1977
This book examines the influence of transport costs on regional economic development in northern Ontario. It begins with an overview of the Canadian freight rate structure, with emphasis on railway rates, and a brief look at the history of federal rate policy. A theoretical model of rate determination...
by A.W. Currie
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1967
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1967
A.W. Currie's Canadian Transportation Economics describes and analyses the economics of transport in Canada whether by rail, highway, inland and coastal waterways, the high seas, air or pipeline. It is written to be of interest to employees of railways, steamship companies, airlines, and pipelines,...
Private Profits versus Public Policy
The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Canadian State
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
The widespread condemnation of drastic price increases on life-saving drugs highlights our growing dependency on and vulnerability to international pharmaceutical conglomerates. However, aren’t the interests of the public supposed to supersede the pursuit of private profit?
In his new work,...
Land, Stewardship, and Legitimacy
Endangered Species Policy in Canada and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Canada and the United States are similar in terms of the species of wildlife that mingle freely across their shared border. Despite this similarity, however, there are significant differences between approaches to wildlife management in these two nations. In Land, Stewardship, and Legitimacy, Andrea...
Auto Pact
Creating a Borderless North American Auto Industry, 1960-1971
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2005
The 1965 Canada-United States Automotive Trade agreement fundamentally reshaped relations between the automotive business and the state in both countries and represented a significant step toward the creation of an integrated North American economy. Breaking from previous conceptions of the agreement...
by Robyn Malo
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Relics and Writing in Late Medieval England uncovers a wide-ranging medieval discourse that had an expansive influence on English literary traditions. Drawing from Latin and vernacular hagiography, miracle stories, relic lists, and architectural history, this study demonstrates that, as the shrines...
The Wireless Spectrum
The Politics, Practices, and Poetics of Mobile Media
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2010
As evidenced by the clientele in any urban coffee shop, devices such as cell phones, BlackBerries, and Wi-Fi-enabled laptops have proliferated, particularly during the past ten years. The Wireless Spectrum explores how wireless technologies have modified both individual and public life, transforming...
Remembering 1759
The Conquest of Canada in Historical Memory
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
This companion volume to Revisiting 1759 examines how the Conquest of Canada has been remembered, commemorated, interpreted, and reinterpreted by groups in Canada, France, Great Britain, the United States, and most of all, in Quebec. It focuses particularly on how the public memory of the Conquest...
Deliberative Democracy for the Future
The Case of Nuclear Waste Management in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2008
In today's world, public policies are increasingly associated with social and environmental risk and scientific uncertainty. Given such potential impacts on the moral freedom and equality for existing and future generations, policies should reflect decision-making standards beyond those of economic...
Politics of Energy Dependency
Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania between Domestic Oligarchs and Russian Pressure
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Energy has been an important element in Moscow’s quest to exert power and influence in its surrounding areas both before and after the collapse of the USSR. With their political independence in 1991, Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania also became, virtually overnight, separate energy-poor entities...
by Ruud Lubbers
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2000
The longest serving Dutch Prime Minister (1982-94), Professor Lubbers is known for his support of liberal values, social equity, human rights, democratic governments, and spirituality. In this book he explores ways to conciliate these values with global economization.
Dr. Lubbers argues that...
The Myth of Green Marketing
Tending Our Goats at the Edge of Apocalypse
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1998
In this groundbreaking study, Toby Smith analyses the role that social myths such as green marketing play in public understanding of the environmental crisis.
This book introduces the concept of hegemony into environmental politics, using the concept to elucidate the political, economic, and...
by Van Kingsley
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1967
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1967
This primer is directed to air contamination control personnel, air engineers, whose only contact with bacteriology is usually their responsibility for providing "white" surroundings in industry and research. Professor Kingsley provides most basic information and describes problems in bacteriology...
For a New Political Economy
Volume 21
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 1998
Bernard Lonergan's economic writings span forty years and represent one of the most important intellectual achievements of the twentieth century. Unfortunately they have been inaccessible outside of the Lonergan research community as the majority of them have not been formally published, and exist...