Brian Lee Crowley (born 1955) is a Canadian political economist, author, and public policy commentator. Since 2010 he has been managing director of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, a

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, Canada. From 1995 until about 2009 he was president of the

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Books

* ''The Self, the Individual and the Community''.

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, 1987 * ''The Road to Equity: Impolitic Essays''. Stoddart, 1994 * ''Taking Ownership: Property Rights and Fishery Management on the Atlantic Coast'', editor. Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, 1996. * ''Fearful Symmetry: The Fall and Rise of Canada's Founding Values''.

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, 2009. * ''The Canadian Century: Moving Out of America's Shadow'', with Jason Clemens and Neils Veldhuis.

, 2010. * ''Gardeners vs. Designers: Understanding the Great Fault Line in Canadian Politics''. Sutherland House, 2020.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Crowley, Brian Lee Living people Writers from Vancouver Canadian activists Canadian economists Canadian non-fiction writers 1955 births