A Hand Up or a Hand Out: Ideas on How to Improve Canada's Equalization Program    by Jordan Bateman
Price: Free! 8120 words. Language: English. Published on June 6, 2013. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Current affairs.
The current Equalization formula, which re-distributes some $16 billion in federal funds to six provinces (PEI, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba), is set to expire in 2014. We’ve gathered in this eBook the writings of a handful of individuals and groups, all who have made suggestions on how to improve the program.

Emergency Economy: A PFRI Paper by Dr. Imran Chaudhry and Saleena Karim    by Saleena Karim
Price: Free! 7930 words. Language: American English. Published on January 25, 2013. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Economic policy.
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This paper, produced by the Pakistan First Research Institute (PFRI), presents a two-pronged contingency model for a sustainable microeconomy in Pakistan’s context.

Analysis of The Flaw In Laissez Faire Capitalism    by Duard L Pruitt
Price: Free! 7460 words. Language: English. Published on November 28, 2012. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Economic policy.
A concise and straightforward analysis of the serious flaws in laissez faire capitalism. The last century of United States economic history is reviewed to identify the policies that caused recessions and depressions, with resulting business slowdowns and unemployment.

The Economics of a Storm    by Catherine Jaime
Price: Free! 1050 words. Language: English. Published on November 3, 2012. Nonfiction » Social Science » Disasters & Disaster Relief.
What happens when a major storm barrels through an area? In addition to the tragedy of loss of life and loss of property that accompanies so many of these storms, we also see shortages and cries of price gauging. In this short work on the topic, Catherine lays out her argument for why price gauging is not evil, and that artificially maintaining low prices in a crisis situation is not virtuous.

Charade of the Debt Crisis    by Steven Kim
Price: Free! 10300 words. Language: English. Published on July 13, 2012. Nonfiction » Business & Economics » Government & business.
A rampant blunder in the marketplace is a mix-up between the destination and the journey. A showcase arose with the financial crisis of 2008 and its aftermath: frantic politicians wasted mounds of public funds even as they crippled the financial markets and the real economy. More generally, a solid grasp of means and ends is the first step toward thrashing out a cogent agenda in any domain.

Fading Paradise    by CD Moulton
Price: Free! 15000 words. Language: English. Published on March 25, 2012. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Economic policy.
This is a warning to those who would invest in Panama´. Take the greatest care. Join in trying to have the president crack down hard on scams. This is a great country with a terrible worldwide reputation because the corruption and badly thought-out laws favor crooks over victims. This president has the strength and ability to make changes, but will he?

The Twilight of the Monetary System: And Dawn of a New Era    by Richard J. Wilson
Price: Free! 17090 words. Language: English. Published on March 10, 2012. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Economic policy.
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Ever more intelligent robots are steadily replacing people in the workplace, and pushing the monetary system into its twilight. The author shows us that, if we mobilize modern science now, we could easily develop a new economic system to create the dawn of a new era of economic democracy to allow everyone to share in the economy.

How to Create An Economic Democracy    by Richard J. Wilson
Price: Free! 17130 words. Language: English. Published on March 8, 2012. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Economic policy.
In 1620 Francis Bacon’s Novum Organum introduced a new scientific method of investigating nature. In 1690 John Locke used the new scientific method to discover how to create political democracy. In this book the author uses Bacon’s scientific method and the trail blazed by Locke to discover how to create economic democracy.