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Harperism : how Stephen Harper and his think tank colleagues have transformed Canada / Donald Gutstein.
- Title
- Harperism : how Stephen Harper and his think tank colleagues have transformed Canada / Donald Gutstein.
- Author
- Gutstein, Donald
- Publication
- Toronto : James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers, [2014]
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Details
- Description
- 288 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Margaret Thatcher transformed British political life forever; Ronald Reagan transformed political life in the United States. Now Canada has experienced a similar, dramatic shift to a new kind of politics, which author Donald Gutstein terms Harperism. The essential elements of Harperism--transforming environmental regulation into free market environmentalism, converting First Nations reserves private property, and replacing science with the market--flow from neo-liberal economic theories propounded by the Austrian economist Friedrich von Hayek and his American and Canadian disciplines. The success of Harperism is no accident. Donald Gutstein documents the links between the politicians, think tanks, journalists, academics, and researchers who nurture and promote each other's neo-liberal ideas. They do so using funds provided by ultra-rich U.S. donors, by Canadian billioinaires like Peter Munk, and by many big corporations--all of whom stand to gain from the ideas and policies the Harperites develop and push." --
- Subject
- Harper, Stephen, 1959-
- Harper, Stephen, 1959- > Influence
- Conservative Party of Canada (2003- )
- 2000 - 2099
- Research institutes > Canada
- Neoliberalism > Canada
- Economic history
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Neoliberalism
- Research institutes
- Canada > Economic conditions > 21st century
- Canada > Politics and government > 2006-2015
- Canada
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Convince Canadians of the Importance of Economic Freedom -- Send in the Think Tanks to Win the Battle of Ideas -- Reject Unions and Prosper -- Liberate Dead Capital on First Nation Reserves -- Counter the Environmental Threat to the Market -- Undermine Scientific Knowledge -- Deny Income Inequality -- Fashion Canada as a Great Nation.
- ISBN
- 9781459406636
- 145940663X
- LCCN
- ^^2015376182
- OCLC
- 881860018
- SCSB-12516430
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library