1. 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.
2. Capitalism for Beginners
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1981
   An amusing, soundly researched, and highly accessible illustrated book that tells you everything you want to know about capitalism.
3. Connexions
   Volume 8, Number 2 - Summer 1983 - Toward a New Economy
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1983
   
4. Connexions
   Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1987
   
5. The Dismal Science
   How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2008
   
6. The Faltering Economy
   The Problem of Accumulation Under Monopoly Capitalism
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1984
   The essays in this volume are part of a radical attempt to grapple with the problems of advanced capitalist development without discarding the real theoretical breakthroughs made by Keynes.
7. Flying Without A Net
   The "Economic Freedom" of Working Canadians in 2000
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2000
   Reports on a project to construct a quantitative index summarizing the multi-dimensional economic status of working people in Canada, based on variations in 14 different component indicators of economic and social well-being.
   
8. How it all adds up
   $4 billion more flows out than comes back in - and that has to change if the city is to stay healthy, critics say
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2002
   A discussion of Toronto's position within the Canadian economy, and an argument that given its' status as 'economic powerhouse' for the country, that perhaps some additional re-investment into the city is warranted.
9. New Catholic Bishops Report says workers in crisis
   Resource Type: Article
   
10. The New Industrial State
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    According to Galbraith, the requirements of producing organizations, not the images of ideology, give shape to modern economic society.
11. Reflections on the 7th Special Session of the U.N. General Assemly
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1975
    Overview and critique of the U.N. conference dealing with the New International Economic Order.
12. This bastardised libertarianism makes 'freedom' an instrument of oppression
    It's the disguise used by those who wish to exploit without restraint, denying the need for the state to protect the 99%
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    An argument against modern right-right libertarianism, using the concepts of positive and negative freedoms to illustrate.

Experts on Economic Trends in the Sources Directory

1. International Forum on Globalization
2. International Monetary Fund
3. World Bank