Shooting the Hippo : Death by Deficit and Other Canadian Myths

by Linda McQuaig

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140174753
• ISBN13: 9780140174755
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Penguin Group (Canada)
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.0" x 0.8" x 4.3"

Customer Reviews

Should be read in school

While the right wingers will hate it....who cares about them they don't like you anyways. This is a book that gives you stats to back up what she says(not the lies of the likes of mathew fraser)A must read if you like Moore, or Frankin

Cutting through the narrative

Decidedly left wing, Linda McQuaig's greatest strength is to decompose the narratives of the right in Canada. The strength of this book isn't that it presents a bold alternative, but it lets one understand how the right managed to construct a 'crisis' around Canada's federal deficit where the actual situation wasn't as bad as they claimed. An interesting read, even if a little dated now.

Excellent,well documented account of 'econmic reality'

McQuaig has written an economic book for all the people who don't make $500,000 plus a year. This is the book that has free enterprisers in shock! There is a conspiracy and it involves the massive transfer of ordinary peoples' wealth to the corporations that would not last a year without it. McQuaig, in a well documented readable argument, assails the myths of international business and exposes its complete moral and financial (!) bankruptcy. From the tyranny of the gold standard, used to imprison our grandfathers and grandmothers, to the current myth of the fickle international investor which is being used to destroy two generations of social progress McQuaig describes a world which is not kinder, or gentler to anyone not born into money.If you want to understand why rabid antigovernment hedge fund investors receive billion dollar government (!) bail-outs while millions of people in hurricane ravaged Central America are offered less than a dollar each in aid to rebuild there lives this is the book for you.