- Behind the Money Curtain: A Left Take on Taxes, Spending and Modern Monetary Theory
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
Taxes do not fund government spending.That's a core insight of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) whose radical implications have not been understood very well by the left. Indeed, it's not well understood at all, and most people who have heard or read it somewhere breeze right past it, and fall back to the taxes-for-spending paradigm that is the sticky common wisdom of the left and right.
- The Business Page
How To Read It and Understand the Economy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1980
- Canada's Great Divide
The politics of the growing gap between rich and poor in the 1990s
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
Over the course of the 1990s, Canada's growing gap has become a slippery slope for a growing number of middle income familes sliding towards the bottom of the income ladder.
- The Canadian City
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
Based on the belief that a healthy city life is possible, this volume collects articles, stories and histories about the city and its people, covering aspects such as human and social relations, art and architecture, urban planning, land development, and the greening of the urban environment.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Pilot Copy, February 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1976
The first issue of the Canadian Information Sharing Service publication. The name of the publication was later changed to Connexions and then to Connexions Digest.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 2 - April 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 4 - August 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- A Challenge to Canada’s Wealthiest 0.1%
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
- Connexions
Volume 3, Number 6 - December 1978 - Unemployment/Chomage
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 2 - May 1980 - Women/Femmes
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1980
- Connexions
Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1988
- Connexions Digest
Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1992
- Democracy for the Few
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1995
How does the U.S. political system work and for what purpose? What are the major forces shaping political life and how do they operate? Who governs in the United States? Who gets what, when, how, and why? Who pays and in what ways. These are the central questions investigated in this book.
- The Economics of Injustice
Poverty
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1975
Various aspects of poverty in Canada, the guaranteed income plan & social justice.
- Fair Taxation in a Changing World: Highlights
Report of the Ontario Fair Tax Commission
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
- Falling Behind
The State of Working Canada, 2000
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
An accessible collation of data and analysis, analyzed from a progressive perspective, about the social and economic realities of working people in Canada.
- Fear of Falling
The Inner Life of the Middle Class
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
Examines the insecurities of the middle class in an attempt to explain its turn to the right during the past two decades. Fear of Falling traces the myths about the middle class to their roots in the ambition and anxieties that torment it and that have led to its retreat from a responsible leadership role.
- Globe's article on income gap really propaganda
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Journalist Barrie McKenna, writing in the main hyped-up article in the Globe’s Focus section on November 9, 2013, talks about how the gap in income between the rich and the rest of us is a serious problem that will hurt Canada for generations to come.
- Liberal Dreams and Nature's Limits
Great Cities of North America Since 1600
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
An exploration of city life through time, focusing on the life [economically, socially, politically, etc.] of five large North American cities at various times in the past - Philadelphia during the time of Benjamin Franklin (1760), New York in the mid nineteenth-century (1860), Chicago at the beginning of the Progressivist Civic Movements (1910), Los Angeles during the immediate Post-war boom (1950) and Toronto at the beginning of its own ascendancy in the 1970's. (1975).
- Nearly $2 Trillion Purloined from U.S. Workers in 2009
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
The upward redistribution has remained as hidden as possible. The forms it has taken—as bonuses, bloated salaries, elephantine stock options, padded consulting fees, outsized compensation to boards of directors, sumptuous conferences, palatial offices complete with original artwork, retinues of superfluous “support” staff, hunting lodges, private corporate dining rooms, regal retirement agreements, and so on—defy exact categorization. Some would appear as profit, some as interest, some as dividends, realized capital gains, gigantic pension programs, retained earnings, or owners’ income, with the remainder deeply buried as “costs of doing business.”
- Open Veins of Latin America
Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
A political economy, a social and cultural narrative, and a powerful description of primitive capital accumulation.
- Plutocracy in America
Runaway Exploitation
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Arguments for categorizing America as a plutocracy (a government of the rich and for the rich).
- Poverty in Wealth
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1976
A critique of existing poverty research in Canada.
- Pragmatics of Community Organization
First Edition
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1986
Information on how to plan action, how to organize meetings, how to train participants for action, how to negotiate, and how to end a particular exercise in community organization.
- The State of the World Atlas
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
- Strategies for Canadian Economic Self-Reliance
Resource Type: Book
- The Suburban Nation
The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
The choice is ours: either a society of homogeneous pieces, isolated from one another in often fortified enclaves, or a society of diverse and memorable neighbourhoods, organized into mutually supportive towns, cities and regions.
- The Trouble With Billionaires
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2010
The glittering lives of billionaires may seem to be a harmless source of entertainment, but authors Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks argue that such financial power not only threatens everyone's economic and social well-being but also upsets the very functioning of democracy. Our society tends to regard great wealth as evidence of exceptional talent or accomplishment. Yet spectacular fortunes are often attributable to luck, ruthlessness, cheating, or advantageous positioning that allow some to build on the work and insights of others who have paved the way.
- Underdevelopment in Canada
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1977
A collection of articles analyzing underdevelopment in Canada in historical and economic terms.
- The Wealthy Banker's Wife
The Assault on Equality in Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
Experts on Income Disparities in the Sources Directory
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