Capitalism
Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit. Central characteristics of capitalism include capital accumulation, competitive markets, a price system, private property and the recognition of property rights, voluntary exchange and wage labor. In a capitalist market economy, decision-making and investments are determined by every owner of wealth, property or production ability in capital and financial markets whereas prices and the distribution of goods and services are mainly determined by competition in goods and services markets.Economists, historians, political economists and sociologists have adopted different perspectives in their analyses …
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DDN: Dundurn Press · 12 November 2024 English
The political life of Dene leader Georges Erasmus — a radical Native rights crusader widely regarded as one of the most important Indigenous leaders of the past fifty years. For …
and away from the alienating arrangements of capitalism. Best of all, 28 HÒT’A! ENOUGH!Yellowknife in …
AUP: Athabasca University Press · 29 October 2024 English
This introductory human resource management (HRM) textbook provides students with an overview of the major domains of human resource management (the “how-to”) with a focus on the practical application of …
as well as maintaining workers’ acceptance of capitalism and their role within it.6 Social reproductive … associated with maintaining workers’ acceptance of capitalism and their role within it is performed primarily …
CPRC: University of Regina Press · 29 October 2024 English
A collection of memories chronicling love, grief, and a life lived on and off stage Raised on a farm and educated in a prairie Bible school, Layne Coleman escapes the …
the powerful who benefitted from unfet- tered capitalism. There was an increasing awareness that it was … few seconds, maybe minutes. It’s boilerplate capitalism, but is it good for women? I’m not sure what …
UAP: University of Alberta Press · 22 October 2024 English
Stories Left in Stone explores the lives, histories, and artistic legacies of Cáceres and Extremadura. Author Troy Nahumko has lived in the old town of Cáceres, a UNESCO World Heritage …
heyday of the ‘developmentalism’ of Spanish capitalism that went hand38 Stories Left in Stone …
UCP: University of Calgary Press · 20 October 2024 English
Essential for understanding and mobilizing public health efforts.
or individualized solutions) and neoliberal capitalism (i.e., the dominant global political economic …
Fraser Institute · 18 October 2024 English
stands for a range of environmental, social, and governance initiatives that critics of shareholder capitalism suggest public companies should voluntarily implement to improve the well-being of society. A companion … activist-led initiatives and proposals to promote ESG-themed investing specifically and stakeholder capitalism more generally. …
Move Beyond ESG 5 Steven Globerman 2. The New Capitalism 11 Steven Globerman 3. Friedman and His ESG … Forces Already Address ESG and “Stakeholder Capitalism” Concerns 59 Eugene F. Fama 7. Corporate Philanthropy: … decades-long evolution of criticisms of shareholder capitalism.1 Proponents of ESG argue that it is a social … surrounding what might be called ESG capitalism, or stakeholder capitalism.3 The series articles point to … with companies substituting ESG capitalism for shareholder capitalism. Indeed, the goals of ESG advocates …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English
Approaching the novels of early Quebec through the counterintuitive lens of the sacred, Lisa Gasbarrone challenges negative views of these novels as dated and even unreadable for the contemporary reader. …
materialist values associated with the rise of capitalism. There is clear evidence that the authors, some …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English
Slings & Arrows, starring Susan Coyne, Paul Gross, Don McKellar, and Mark McKinney as members of the New Burbage Theatre Festival, was heralded by television critics as one of the …
Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Durham: Duke University Press, 1991. Rpt. 2001 … purpose in a popular medium in an age of advanced capitalism, but in a manner that does not inadvertently … contrasts with the theatre because the world of late capitalism collapses the distinction of spectator and show; … longer genuinely possible in an age of advanced capitalism, including on television. In place of such skepti- … pursuit of artistic vocation in an age of advanced capitalism. But in doing so, it conforms to more updated …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 French
Dans À quoi sert la philanthropie?, Hilary Pearson démystifie le monde de la philanthropie canadienne en dressant un portrait actuel des fondations et en mettant en lumière des organisations qui …
pouvoir eux-mêmes façonnés par les choix publics concernant la relation entre l’État et les entreprises dans le cadre du capitalisme … fondations est liée à un discours important et puissant concernant l’inégalité, les exploitations du colonialisme et du capitalisme …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English
Sanctuary in Pieces documents the evolving nature of sanctuary in settler societies. Drawing on archival research and interviews in Montreal/Mooniyaang/Tiohtià:ke, Madokoro explores the history of protection and hospitality over two …
me comprehend the city as a centre of merchant capitalism and clarified when and how certain rail lines … because it explores the structures of global capitalism in fostering the need for economic refuge as … While Goldman focused on the problems of global capitalism and state authoritarianism, by the 1930s, she …
