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  1. The American Class System
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
  2. 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.
  3. $88 billion a year in subsidies for climate disaster
    Global governments spend more than double what energy companies invest to find new regions for oil and gas drilling, despite climate change
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Despite pledging in 2009 to phase out public subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, G20 countries have disregarded those promises and are currently spending $88 billion a year in taxpayer money to fund the discovery of new gas, coal, and oil deposits around the world.
  4. Fossil Fuel Industry Benefits from $20 Billion in Subsidies in the U.S.
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    A new joint investigative report by Oil Change International and the Overseas Development Institute reveals that, in the United States alone, the fossil fuel industry has benefited from over $20 billion per year in government subsidies between 2008-2015.
  5. The Free Trade Game
    New Internationalist December 2004
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2004
    A look at free trade and and the effects of NAFTA. Discussion of the opposition to free trade and alternatives.
  6. Governments Giving Fossil Fuel Companies $10 Million a Minute: IMF
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
  7. Life, Money & Illusion
    Living on Earth as if We Want to Stay
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    The failure to reduce green house gas emissions, the success of efforts to curb ozone depletion, causes related to prosperity and social justice are just some the topics covered. By using the example of Kerela, India, Nickerson shows how a society by working together can become car-free, religious and bigotry free, have a high level of health care and literacy and be able to sustain itself on a fraction of the money on which we depend.
  8. Louder Voices: The Corporate Welfare Bums
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    NDP leader Davis Lewis provides facts and analysis to support his charge that "government and big business are holding hands -- in your pocket."
  9. The myth of a free market in publishing and high-tech
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1999
    The high-tech industries, in the U.S. in particular, owe their very existence to massive levels of government subsidies and intervention.
  10. Nature of Economies
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000   Published: 2001
    Jacobs argues that since human beings exist wholly within nature as part of natural order in every respect, we should look to the processes of nature for vibrant and flexible models of economic planning.
  11. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 5, 2015
    Residential schools
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2015
    This issue of Other Voices focuses on residential schools. As documented by the just-released report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, residential schools were set up to forcibly 'assimilate' Native children by taking them away from their parents and communities, and depriving them of their language, culture, history, and emotional supports. Based as they were on a system of arbitrary power and cruelty, it is not surprising that they also fostered physical and sexual abuse of the children forced into the schools. We spotlight the report and the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, as well as films, books, and survivor stories. Also in this issue: the Orwellian language and tactics being used to sell 'anti-terrorist' legislation, mind-boggling subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, and, on the other side of the ledger, stories of courage and resistance.
  12. Radical Digressions 2
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 1981   Published: 2000
  13. Secrets, Lies and Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Noam Chomsky interviewed by David Barsamian.
  14. Stop Signs
    Cars and Capitalism on the Road to Economic, Social and Ecological Decay
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    A global ecological critique of the American automobile addiction.
  15. 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.

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