1. The American Class System
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1998
   
2. Behind Closed Doors 
   How The Rich Won Control of Canada's Tax System... And Ended Up Richer
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1987
   A stinging indictment of Canada's tax system and the people who shape it.
3. Behind the Money Curtain: A Left Take on Taxes, Spending and Modern Monetary Theory 
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2018
   Taxes do not fund government spending.That's a core insight of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) whose radical implications have not been understood very well by the left. Indeed, it's not well understood at all, and most people who have heard or read it somewhere breeze right past it, and fall back to the taxes-for-spending paradigm that is the sticky common wisdom of the left and right.
4. Beyond Panama: Unlocking the world's secrecy jurisdictions
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2016
   The 21 jurisdictions covered by the Panama Papers data vary from the rolling hills of Wyoming to tropical getaways like the British Virgin Islands. But all have at least one thing in common - secrecy is the rule.
5. Bleeding the Patient: The Debt/Deficit Hoax Exposed
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1993
   An edited transcript of a four-hour discussion held by nine progressive political economists. Discusses the hysteria around the government debt-deficit issue and the difficulty in developing counter-arguments.
6. The Business Page
   How To Read It and Understand the Economy
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1980
   
7. California Greens Advance: The Camejo and Chretien Campaigns
   Against The Current vol. 124
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2006
   In California the Green Party is changing both in its social composition and in its political diversity. The party's support for immigrants' rights, especially around the issue of state driver's licenses, has won the party growing support among Latinos. Leading activists such as Nativo Lopez, Chair of the Mexican American Political Association (MAPA), and Miguel Araujo, from Centro Azteca, have come into the Green Party.
8. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 3, Number 4 - August 1978
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1978
   
9. Das Capital, Volume 1 
   A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1867   Published: 1890
   Marx's great work sets out to grasp and portray the totality of the capitalist mode of production, and the bourgeois society that emerges from it. He describes and connects all its economic features, together with its legal, political, religious, artistic, philosophical and ideological manifestations.
10. Charity Begins At Home
    Generosity and Self-Interest Among the Philanthropic Elite
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    
11. Cities and the Wealth of Nations
    Principles of Economic Life
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
    Jacobs argues that virtually all economic life, no matter how geographically remote from cities, depends on cities to maintain it or change it.
12. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 5 - January 1981 - Militarism/Militarisme
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
    
13. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1988
    
14. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
    
15. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
    
16. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
    
17. Dark Age Ahead
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    A dark age is a culture's dead end. Jacobs argues that our society is facing the coming of a dark age.
18. A Direct Tax On Fossil Fuel Is What The World Needs Urgently
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    A direct tax on fossil fuels is the only realistic way to achieve the necessary cuts.
19. Discussion Paper: Searching for Fairness
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1993
    An overview of some of the issues being addressed by the Fair Tax Commission. Looks at some of the implications of the fairness issues that have been raised, and at the issues that arise in translating principles of fairness into policy. Included are sections on property taxes, personal income tax, sales tax, benefits taxes, wealth taxes, corporate income taxes, payroll taxes, resource taxation.
    
20. Fair Taxation in a Changing World: Highlights
    Report of the Ontario Fair Tax Commission
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    
21. Get a Life!
    How to make a good buck dance around the dinosaurs and save the world while you're at it
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
    Simultaneoulsy a textbook on new careers and lifestyles for aspiring entrepreneurs and a strategy for social, economic and environmental renewal.
22. Get Up, Stand Up 
    Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, and Battling the Corporate Elite
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    Levine offers insights into the epidemic of political passivity in America and analyzes how major U.S. institutions have created helplessness and fatalism. He proposes ways of recovering dignity, energy, and unity in order to wrest power away from the corporatocracy.
23. Give Us Our Money Back!
    How Harper Protects Canada's Tax Cheats
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    There is a class of people and corporations in this country whose illicit financial practices have an enormous negative impact on the country and its citizens. Yet the law and order regime of Stephen Harper barely plays lip service to the issue of tax evasion through tax havens. While Harper cuts billions from government programs in the name of deficit reduction, he refuses to go after billions of dollars in revenue lost to tax evasion and avoidance every year.
24. The Great Canadian Tax Dodge
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2015
    It is estimated that between 100 and 170 billion dollars leaves Canada every year, untaxed. Much of it is siphoned off to Canadian-made offshore tax havens. "The Great Canadian Tax Dodge" documents the birth of the Canadian Tax Fairness movement and examines the issue of tax avoidance, exposing the sophisticated corporate strategies and tax loopholes commonly used to legally avoid tax.
25. The GST in... The Big Tax Picture
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990
    When you start talking about the GST, you end up talking about the whole idea of taxation. And when you start talking about who pays more and who pays less, you're really talking about the kind of country you want to live in.
26. How Not To Fund Infrastructure
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Recycling is supposed to be a good thing, so when the federal Liberals quietly announced that "asset recycling" would be part of their strategy for meeting their much-ballyhooed infrastructure promises, not many eyebrows were raised. They should have been. Asset recycling is an obscure code word for selling our public goods for private profit. It's privatization by another name.
    Don't have the taxes to pay for new buses? It's okay, you can sell your electricity utility to pay for them instead. In fact, this is precisely what the Ontario Liberal government is doing. Already 30 per cent of the profitable Hydro One have been sold and another 30 per cent will be sold before 2018. A public Hydro One could more directly fight climate change, lower energy costs for the poor or work with First Nations on whose lands generation often happens. A private Hydro becomes an instrument for profit first with other goals secondary.
    What the Liberals have started in Ontario will soon be rolled out across Canada. Here are the problems with these schemes.
27. Inventing Tax Rage (excerpt)
    Misinformation in the National Post
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004   Published: 2005
    The propaganda campaign to invent "tax rage".
28. Man's Worldly Goods
    The Story of the Wealth of Nations
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1936   Published: 1968
    Huberman sets out to explain history using economic theory, and to explain economic theory using history. He tries to explain, in terms of the development of economic thought, why certain doctrines arose when they did, how they originated in the very fabric of social life, and how they were developed, modified, and overthrown when the pattern of that fabric was changed.
29. The Maximum Wage
    A Common-Sense Prescription for Revitalizing America---by Taxing the Very Rich
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    The author traces the history of attempts to limit incomes and proposes the adoption of a maximum wage to revitalize American economy.
30. The Myth of the Good Corporate Citizen
    Democracy Under the Rule of Big Business
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
    Dobbin argues that transnational corporations (TNG's) have power over every nation's government; they are not the good citizens they claim to be.
31. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2016
    Tax Evasion
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2016
    Employing a network of accountants, tax lawyers, corporate shells, tax havens, secret bank accounts, and other methods, the 1% have become extremely adept at evading even the low rates of taxation they are subjected to.
32. Parliamentary Names & Numbers Online
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Lists all federal Members of Parliament and Senators, all provincial legislators, federal ministries, federal agencies and Crown corporations, Canadian embassies abroad, provincial and territorial ministries, direct phone and fax numbers, E-mail addresses, World Wide Web addresses, all indexed by subject. Available in print and online at $75/year.
33. The Price We Pay 
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2014
    This documentary, inspired by Brigitte Alepin's book La Crise fiscale qui vient, shines a light on the dark history and dire present-day reality of big-business tax avoidance, which has seen multinationals depriving governments of trillions of dollars in tax revenues by harbouring profits in offshore havens.
34. Progressive Frames for Taxes 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    As progressives, we do not believe that taxes are necessarily an affliction. Instead, we think of taxes as investments that give us dividends.
35. The Suburban Nation
    The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    The choice is ours: either a society of homogeneous pieces, isolated from one another in often fortified enclaves, or a society of diverse and memorable neighbourhoods, organized into mutually supportive towns, cities and regions.
36. Tax resistance
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    The refusal to willingly pay a tax because of opposition to the institution that is imposing the tax, or to some of that institution's policies.
37. Taxes a rotten deal for working people
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1977
    A business is allowed deductions based on the actual situation, whereas for working people allowances are not realistic, but more in the nature of a gesture or a token.
38. The Trouble With Billionaires 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
    The glittering lives of billionaires may seem to be a harmless source of entertainment, but authors Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks argue that such financial power not only threatens everyone's economic and social well-being but also upsets the very functioning of democracy. Our society tends to regard great wealth as evidence of exceptional talent or accomplishment. Yet spectacular fortunes are often attributable to luck, ruthlessness, cheating, or advantageous positioning that allow some to build on the work and insights of others who have paved the way.
39. Unnecessary Debts
    Resource Type: Book
    
40. We Can Save Social Programs 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1991   Published: 1992
    We can save social programs by removing unwarranted tax subsidies for corporations and wealthy investors.

Experts on Imp“ts in the Sources Directory

1. CorpWatch
2. International Monetary Fund
3. Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development