Dedicated to Peter Hogg, Principles of Canadian Income Tax Law, 10th Edition elucidates Canadian income tax law in simple, concise, and non-technical language. The book encourages us to think deeply and critically about the important role of income tax in Canadian society. It emphasizes the principles of income tax law, the policies that influence and underlie the system, […]
Lah, T. J. and Thomas R. Klassen, eds. 2023. Policy Analysis in South Korea. Bristol: Bristol University Press and Policy Press, xxiii + 291p.
Roberge, Ian, Nara Park and Thomas R. Klassen, eds. 2023. Asymmetric Neighbors and International Relations: Living in the Shadow of Elephants. Routledge. xxiv + 229.
Grace Barakat and Brenda Spotton Visano. “Who gets to heal? The negative mental health outcomes of COVID-19 on racialized working women.” Islamic Relief Canada. 2022.
Brzozowski, Matthew, and Brenda Spotton Visano. "Canadian Consumer Financial Vulnerability, Stress, and Well-Being." Canadian Public Policy 49, no. 2 (2023): 114-135.
Buckland, Jerry and Brenda Spotton Visano. Financial Vulnerability in Canada: The Embedded Experience of Households Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Books, 2022. ISBN: 978-3-030-92580-2
Innovative technologies promise a brave new world of convenience and cost effectiveness - powered by cameras that monitor our movements, sensors that line our streets, and algorithms that determine our resource allocation - but at what cost? Exploring the relationship between technology and cities, this book brings together an outstanding group of authors in the […]
This volume elucidates and explores the interrelationships and direct causal connection between serious international crimes, serious breaches to fundamental human rights, and gross affronts to human dignity that lead to mass forced migration. Forced migration most often occurs in the context of protracted armed conflict of a noninternational nature where terrorism, fierce fighting, deep animosity, […]
This paper, by Brenda Spotton Visano explores the importance of financial satisfaction for overall life satisfaction in households whose principal source of subjective stress is financial. Using data drawn from 2 waves (2005, 2010) of the nationally representative General Social Survey in Canada, we find that for financially stressed Canadian households, their stress-affected sense of […]
This paper, by Brenda Spotton Visano suggests that the conception of fundamental uncertainty grounding post-Keynesian monetary macroeconomics is consistent with a particularly complex type of decision making characterized by the social determination of preferences and outcomes. Contrary to the argument that positivism grounds post-Keynesian analysis, such a framework of analysis reflects a world in which […]