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Le travail noir et l'ébconomie de demain
Par Alfred Sauvy, Rosine Klatzmann, Anita Hirsch. 1984
Le nouvel état industriel: essai sur le système économique américain ((Bibliothèque des sciences humaines))
Par John Kenneth Galbraith. 1967
Le système du monde, du XVe siècle à nos jours
Par Immanuel Wallerstein. 1980
Le capitalisme mondial ((Économie en liberté, ISSN 0768-0988).)
Par Charles Albert Michalet. 1976
Simple, comme l'économie ((Champs, ISSN 0151-8084 ; 26. Champ historique))
Par Alain Dubuc. 1987
The mystery of capital: why capitalism triumphs in the West and fails everywhere else
Par Hernando De Soto. 2000
The author explains capitalism's failure in developing countries and offers a practical plan for transforming weak economies. Observing that citizens…
of these nations often lack registered titles to their property, he argues that governments must establish legally integrated systems of ownership and markets to convert work and savings to capital and reward individual enterprise. 2000.Originally published in 1923, these stories tell of the pioneer women who helped to settle Manitoba. Included are the tales…
of the first European women in the West, and the recollections of Mrs. William Cowan, the oldest living settler, and Sister Laurent, who arrived in St. Boniface in 1850. 1987.Wolf willow: a history, a story, and a memory of the last plains frontier
Par Wallace Earle Stegner. 1962
When I was thirteen
Par Mary. Pseud McKenzie. 1979
This diary of a young girl in pioneer Ontario was written in 1897-1898 and published in a rural paper 20…
years later. Mary McKenzie is the pseudonym of Christina Young, daughter of John and Emma (Dawson) Young. 1979.Voice of the pioneer: more first-person accounts from CBC's best-loved radio program
Par Bill McNeil. 1984
The worldly philosophers: the lives, times, and ideas of the great economic thinkers
Par Robert L Heilbroner. 1967
The silence of the North
Par Olive A Fredrickson, Ben East. 1972
In 1920, Olive Fredrickson married a trapper. She relates their many hardships: loneliness, near-starvation, and winter life in a primitive…
cabin. When her husband died, Olive was left with three children and a farm to manage. c1972.The village blacksmith
Par Aldren Auld Watson. 1968
A look into the bygone world of the old New England blacksmith. He shod horses, built wagons, buggies, sleds, and…
agricultural tools, and repaired harnesses. The author reveals the great variety of objects made from iron as well as how they were used. 1968.The fearsome dilemma: simultaneous inflation and unemployment
Par Alex N McLeod. 1994
An economist discusses the problem of how inflation and unemployment have been managed since 1939. McLeod notes that while inflation…
has been controlled in most industrialized countries, economic output has remained below capacity, and so unemployment has been high. McLeod argues that the instruments now used to control inflation are inadequate, and often make unemployment worse. He presents several possible approaches which might avoid this dilemma. 1994.The legend of Grizzly Adams, California's greatest mountain man (Vintage West series)
Par Richard H Dillon. 1966
In 1837, at the age of 37, John Adams left Massachusetts for California where he hunted bear and other wildlife.…
He gradually assembled a menagerie of animals and exhibited them in San Francisco during the 1850s. Even with the facts separated from the legend, Adams continues to stand out as a bold and fearless man. 1966.The Oregon Trail
Par Francis Parkman, Edith Goodkind Rosenwald, Mason Wade, Maynard Dixon. 1978
An account of the author's experiences during the early days of the West. He writes of big game hunts, encounters…
with Indians, and camp life on the trail. First published in 1849. 1978.The mighty land
Par Cliff Farrell. 1975
Roundup of anecdotes, legends, and historical facts of the Old West by a Western novelist. Colorful portrayal of the trail…
blazers, the Indians, and bandits and the peacemakers, the railroad men and the ranchers. 1975.The generous years: remembrances of a frontier boyhood
Par Chet Huntley. 1968
The well-known television commentator recalls his boyhood in Montana before the depression - the one-room schoolhouse, the hard work and…
the wholesome pleasures, and the history and natural beauty of his native state. 1968.The affluent society
Par John Kenneth Galbraith. 1958
Conventional wisdom has it that John Kenneth Galbraith's "The Affluent Society" spawned the neoliberalism we see in Bill Clinton, Tony…
Blair, and other world leaders. The economist's prose, lofty but still easily manageable, laid down the gauntlet for the post-cold war class struggle that was still far in the future in 1958. Galbraith saw the widening gap between the richest and the poorest as an emergent threat to economic stability, and proposed significant investment in parks, transportation, education, and other public amenities - what we now call infrastructure - to ameliorate these differences and postpone depression and revolution indefinitely. 1958.Shooting the hippo: death by deficit and other Canadian myths
Par Linda McQuaig. 1995
No subject has dominated Canadian politics so completely as the national deficit. McQuaig examines the policies behind the government's handling…
of the deficit, arguing that current policies of reducing the deficit are badly flawed and could cause irreparable harm to our society and economy. 1995.