HARPERISM: How Stephen Harper and his Think Tank Colleagues have Transformed Canada, by Donald Gutstein (1st Ed. SIGNED)

Author: Donald Gutstein. Published by James Loriner & Co, Toronto, ON, 2014. 1st Ed., Printed in Canada. Signed by the Author. Very Good Condition SOFTCOVER Book with minor cover handling. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 6 x 9 inch, 288 pages.

In HARPERISM, Donald Gutstein documents the links between the politicians, think tanks, journalists, academics, and researchers who nurture and promote each other's neo-liberal ideas.

As Donald Gutstein shows, Harper has successfully used a strategy of incremental change coupled with denial of the underlying neo-liberal analysis that explains these hard-to-understand measures. 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 billionaires like Peter Munk, and by many big corporations--all of whom stand to gain from the ideas and policies the Harperites develop and push. This book casts new light on the last ten years of Canadian politics. It documents the challenges that Harperism--with or without Stephen Harper--will continue to offer to the many Canadians who do not share this pro-market world view.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald Gutstein is a writer and researcher, retired after teaching for 30 years in the Simon Fraser University School of Communication. He is the author of six books, most recently The Big Stall: How Big Oil and Think Tanks Are Blocking Action on Climate.

For more info on Stephen Harper, please see: Stephen Harper | The Canadian Encyclopedia

1st Edition & Signed by Author
ISBN: 978145940663
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