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 tells the fascinating and far-reaching story of one of the world’s most important metals.

Globalization, Poverty, and Income Inequality uses diverse empirical approaches to reveal the sometimes unexpected effects of trade and globalization on poverty and inequality.

Rising Up shows how living wage movements have transformed, or are campaigning to transform, labour policy in Canada and stimulated broader public debate about income and social inequality.

Inalienable Properties explores the contrasting approaches taken by local leaders to property rights and development in four Indigenous communities.

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.

An exploration of one little-known mineral, and the social, political, and economic forces that shaped both its history and the twentieth century.

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.

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 examines trade, competition, and survival in a key industry under globalizing pressures.

A timely and insightful volume, The OECD and Transnational Governance fills an important gap in the literature on global governance.

Is Canada becoming a more polarized society? Or is it a kind-hearted nation that takes care of its disadvantaged?

A look at historical and contemporary restructuring, linking development of rural communities with resource development and Aboriginal marginalization.

A superb analysis of how the decline of Canadian Keynesianism has made way for the emergence of politics organized around balanced budgets.

Throughout this concise and elegant book, John Helliwell emphasizes well-being as an explicit focus for research and for public policies.