Women and Property in Urban India
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
Technology, Trade, and Survival in a Global Market
Big Steel examines trade, competition, and survival in a key industry under globalizing pressures.
The OECD and Transnational Governance
A timely and insightful volume, The OECD and Transnational Governance fills an important gap in the literature on global governance.
The Option of Urbanism
Investing in a New American Dream
Shows how the American Dream is shifting to include cities as well as suburbs and how the financial and real estate communities need to respond to build communities that are more environmentally, socially, and financially sustainable.
Dimensions of Inequality in Canada
Is Canada becoming a more polarized society? Or is it a kind-hearted nation that takes care of its disadvantaged?
Second Growth
Community Economic Development in Rural British Columbia
A look at historical and contemporary restructuring, linking development of rural communities with resource development and Aboriginal marginalization.
In the Long Run We're All Dead
The Canadian Turn to Fiscal Restraint
A superb analysis of how the decline of Canadian Keynesianism has made way for the emergence of politics organized around balanced budgets.
Globalization and Well-Being
Throughout this concise and elegant book, John Helliwell emphasizes well-being as an explicit focus for research and for public policies.
Independence and Economic Security in Old Age
The product of a three-year research program, this work focuses on the economic and social implications of aging at the level of the individual and of society as a whole.
Regionalism, Multilateralism, and the Politics of Global Trade
This volume explores the changing relationship between regionalism and multilateralism and examine the implications for national policy in a global trading system.