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Jim Stanford is Economist with Canadian union Unifor. He has a PhD Economics from the New School for Social Research in New York. He writes on economics for the Globe and Mail, appears regularly on TV, and is the Vice President of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

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The information is all there, well presented and well explained. Level of detail is appropriate, you get to know the basics and a bit more but the book doesn’t drown you in technicalities and minor matters. The one major flaw of the book: it is politically biased. The author has a political message and tries very hard to bring it across. This makes reading the book unnecessarily cumbersome.
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ecureuil | 1 annan recension | Aug 6, 2020 |
Ce petit cours d'autodéfense n'est pas le digne successeur du petit cours d'autodéfense intellectuelle. Il démarre très bien, et plus on s'enfonce dans le bouquin, plus on s'ennuie, plus l'auteur perd en crédit, et même en pouvoir critique.
J'ai adoré le début du bouquin proposant une définition du capitalisme très vulgarisée, mais suffisamment instructive pour un néophyte. La proposition sur le travail domestique m'a par exemple, particulièrement convaincue.
Sauf qu'on reste en surface. Après cela, on se perd dans des concepts techniques, à la fois simples et déjà connus, mais sur lesquels on s'attarde lourdement.
Pour finalement ne faire qu'un très très court paragraphe de quelques pages sur le socialisme. Le sous-titre du bouquin c'est "l'abc du capitalisme", mais dans l'histoire du capitalisme, le socialisme est crucial, ce n'est pas qu'une petite page qu'on tourne...

Un cadeau de mon papa si mes souvenirs sont bons...
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jaythrotule | 1 annan recension | Mar 13, 2013 |
Challenging the Market offers insights from eighteen scholars and activists from around the world. Calling on a tremendous range of experience in different countries, different industries, and with different groups of workers, contributors argue that labour market policy should shift to a more interventionist and compassionate footing.

For two decades economic and social policy in most of the world has been guided by the notion that economies function best when they are fully exposed to competitive market forces. In labour market policy, this approach is reflected in the widespread emphasis on "flexibility" - a euphemism for the retrenchment of income support and social security, the relaxation of labour market regulations, and the enhanced power of private actors to determine the terms of the employment relationship. These strategies have had marked effects on labour market outcomes, leading to greater vulnerability and polarization - and not always in ways that enhance worker-centred flexibility. The authors offer a more balanced analysis of the functioning and effects of labour market regulation and deregulation. By questioning the underpinnings of the "flexibility" paradigm, and revealing its often damaging impacts (on different countries, sectors, and constituencies), they challenge the conclusion that unregulated market forces produce optimal labour market outcomes. The authors conclude with several suggestions for how labour policy could be reformulated to promote both efficiency and equity.

http://www.mqup.mcgill.ca/book.php?bookid=1770
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