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Quarterly Book Review

Original Highways The title of the book is surely apt, for the earliest means of travel in this great land we call Canada, was the canoe, gliding across bodies of water, usually rivers, sometimes lakes, for purposes of commerce or war. The earliest explorers, starting...
Quarterly Book Review

Quarterly Book Review

THE GREAT LEVELER Just when you thought you knew just about everything having to do with economic inequality, along comes a book whose title at first blush appears highly implausible, if not outrageous. The world could be considered to have enjoyed relatively even...
Quarterly Book Review

Quarterly Book Review

I can’t remember ever having read two books in succession with overlapping themes which, furthermore, were a joy to read! There was no guarantee at the outset that two works on essentially globalization by two academics, one of whom is a Nobel laureate, would be...