University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
by Ross McKitrick
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
The relationship between economic growth and the environment is at the forefront of public attention and poses serious challenges for policymakers around the world. Economic Analysis of Environmental Policy, a textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses, provides a rigorous and thorough...
From Adam Smith to Maynard Keynes
The Heritage of Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1974
In this survey of the great exponents of the classical tradition, Vincent Bladen examines the thought and works of Adam Smith, T.R. Malthus, Henry Thornton, David Ricardo, J.S. Mill, Karl Marx, W.S. Jevons, Alfred Marshall, and John Maynard Keynes, and relates their views to modern situations. This...
Growing a Sustainable City?
The Question of Urban Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Urban agriculture offers promising solutions to many different urban problems, such as blighted vacant lots, food insecurity, storm water runoff, and unemployment. These objectives connect to many cities’ broader goal of “sustainability,” but tensions among stakeholders have started to emerge...
by Nandor Dreisziger
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
In Church and Society in Hungary and in the Hungarian Diaspora, Nándor Dreisziger tells the story of Christianity in Hungary and the Hungarian diaspora from its earliest years until the present. Beginning with the arrival of Christianity in the middle Danube basin, Dreisziger follows the fortunes...
Employment Equity in Canada
The Legacy of the Abella Report
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
In the mid-1980s, the Abella Commission on Equality in Employment and the federal Employment Equity Act made Canada a policy leader in addressing systemic discrimination in the workplace. More than twenty-five years later, Employment Equity in Canada assembles a distinguished group of experts to examine...
Gompers in Canada
A Study in American Continentalism Before the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1974
Samuel Gompers, the charismatic chief of the American Federation of Labor at the turn of the century, claimed to represent the interests of all workers in North America, but it was not until American corporations began to export jobs to Canada via branch plants that he became concerned with representing...
From Equality to Inequality
Social Change Among Newly Sedentary Lanoh Hunter-Gatherer Traders of Peninsular Malaysia
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2011
The egalitarian society once enjoyed by the Lanoh hunter-gatherers of Peninsular Malaysia is quickly changing. Throughout a year of ethnographic fieldwork among the Lanoh, Csilla Dallos studied and interpreted social change in order to better understand the processes leading to inequality and the...
The Guardian
Perspectives on the Ministry of Finance of Ontario
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2011
Finance departments have often been portrayed as guardians of the public purse. In The Guardian, a multidisciplinary group of contributors examines the Ministry of Finance of Ontario since the Second World War. During the last sixty years the Ministry was transformed from a relatively small 'Treasury'...
Polling and Public Opinion
A Canadian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2007
The importance of polling public opinion is widely recognized today. Indeed, it is sometimes argued that in mass societies, polls have also become an important medium for communicating ideas and beliefs, especially since many people have become less involved in community organizations and interest...
Hopeful Travellers
Families, Land, and Social Change in Mid-Victorian Peel County, Canada West
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1981
In this exploration of the nature of social reality in a mid-nineteenth-century Upper Canadian farming community, Professor Gagan employs the techniques of historical demography to reconstruct the population of mid-Victorian Peel County – specifically the histories of those families who occupied...
Women Challenging Unions
Feminism, Democracy, and Militancy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1993
Women Challenging Unions is a collection of original papers that presents a vision of an invigorated and vibrant labour movement, one that would actively seek the full participation of women and other traditionally excluded groups, and that would willingly incorporate a feminist agenda. This vision...
Perceptions of Cuba
Canadian and American Policies in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2010
In 1976, with the US trade embargo against Cuba underway, Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau visited the island nation, befriended his counterpart, and exclaimed publicly "Long live Prime Minister Fidel Castro!" During the past half-century of communist rule in Cuba, Canada's...
Community, State, and Market on the North Atlantic Rim
Challenges to Modernity in the Fisheries
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1998
This is a study of Northern Norway and Atlantic Canada, two regions experiencing a severe crisis due to overexploitation of fisheries resources. The work of a group of researchers from Canada, Norway, and the United States, it examines the implications of common market integration, privatized resource...
by W. Edmund Clark
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1978
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1978
With its emphasis on rural development as opposed to urban development, Tanzania has pursued an individual path in socialist development. This work is the first empirical analysis of public investment in matters of agriculture, education, rural health, manufacturing, and commerce, comparing the actual...