economics The Miramichi Reader

Rough and Plenty: a Memorial by Raymond A. Rogers

May 22, 2021January 13, 2021 by James M. Fisher

In Rough and Plenty: A Memorial, Rogers explores the parallel processes of dispossession suffered by nineteenth-century Scottish crofters expelled from their ancestral lands during the Highland Clearances, and by the marginalization of coastal fishing communities in Nova Scotia.

NOlympians: Inside the Fight Against Capitalist Mega-Sports in Los Angeles, Tokyo and Beyond by Jules Boykoff

March 7, 2020March 7, 2020 by James M. Fisher

NOlympians: Inside the Fight Against Capitalist Mega-Sports in Los Angeles, Tokyo and Beyond investigates the intersection of the global rise of anti-Olympics activism and the declining popularity of hosting of the Games.

The Age of Increasing Inequality by Lars Osberg

January 20, 2019 by James M. Fisher

This book documents the dramatic and rapid growth in inequality. It identifies the causes. And it proposes meaningful steps to halt and reverse this dangerous trend.

Looking for Bootstraps: Economic Development in the Maritimes by Donald J. Savoie

January 20, 2019December 11, 2017 by James M. Fisher

In 2006, award-winning author Donald Savoie wrote a seminal book on economic development in the Maritimes: Visiting Grandchildren. A decade later, he marks his return to that subject with Looking for Bootstraps. Concerned about the region’s future, he … Continue reading