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  • Canadian Agricultural Policy

    The Historical Pattern

    by Vernon Fowke ...
    Series series Heritage
    First published in 1946, this historical analysis of Canadian agricultural policy from 1600 to 1930 tests the assumption that agriculture has been Canada's basic industry, central in the economic and political life of the nation. Professor Fowke demonstrates that agricultural interests have always been secondary in shaping agricultural policy. Government attitudes have been influenced less by ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Dragon's Hidden Wings

    How China Rises with its Soft Power

    by Sheng Ding ...
    Series series Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development
    The Dragon''s Hidden Wings is the first comprehensive study on China''s use of soft power. Sheng Ding provides the reader with an insightful empirical study that details China''s economic and political rise on the global scene over the course of the last three decades. This book not only endeavors to examine the connections between the ongoing rise of China and what Joseph Nye defines as soft ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Customs Administration in Canada

    by Gordon Blake ...
    Series series Heritage
    The Canadian tariff has been a singularly faithful mirror of economic and political change in this country, but it is a glass through which much has been seen darkly. This study is an attempt to improve the view. It traces the administration of the tariff through Canadian history, and provides the first complete treatment of the subject and its significance for the country's commerce.Dr. Blake's ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Monetary and Fiscal Thought and Policy in Canada, 1919-1939

    Series series Heritage
    In this careful and thorough study of a Canadian field which has been relatively untouched in recent years, Dr. Brecher records and comments on the development of monetary and fiscal thinking in Canada in the inter-war period, and its impact on public policy in the federal sphere. Examining Canadian opinion about economic theory during this time, the author draws on four fields of thought: that of ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The National Policy and the Wheat Economy

    by Vernon Fowke ...
    Series series Heritage
    First published in 1957, this study traces the development of the national policy as it affected the growth of the Canadian trade and discusses the grain marketing problems of Western Canada in the decades that followed, with detailed attention to legislation and moves by various growers' groups in an attempt to meet these problems. This important study in political economy is organized into four ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Monopoly Capital

    by Paul A. Baran ...

    $9.99 USD

  • Industrial Relations

    Challenges and Responses

    Edited by John Crispo ...
    Series series Heritage
    Industrial relations, which in the past have focused almost entirely on union-management relations, have recently been expanded to include such new areas of interest as manpower and poverty problems. At the University of Toronto a new Centre for Industrial Relations has been established, a research-oriented institution whose primary objective is to further scholarly investigations into all phases ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Protective Tariff in Canada's Development

    Eight Essays on Trade and Tariff When Factors Move with Special Reference to Canadian Protectionism, 1870-1955

    by J.H. Dales ...
    Series series Heritage
    Canadian historians have always looks favourably on Macdonald's national policies, including the protective tariff. On the other hand, the canons of economic theory have little or nothing to say in favour of protection. Professor Dales attempts in these essays to bridge this gap between trade theory and the standard interpretation of Canadian development.In the first three essays he is concerned ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Wages, Prices, Profits, and Economic Policy

    Proceedings of a Conference held by the Centre for Industrial Relations, University of Toronto, 1967

    Edited by John Crispo ...
    Series series Heritage
    The essays included in this book are the proceedings of a conference held by the Centre for Industrial Relations at the University of Toronto, 1967. They have been divided into five sections: "Wage-Price-Profit Relations in Canada—The Problem in Perspective," "A Diagnosis of the Problem," "Foreign Experience," "The Government and Wage-Price-Profit Relations," and "A Policy for Canada." The essays ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Canadian Economic Policy and the Impact of International Capital Flows

    Series series Heritage
    The object of this study is to investigate the effects that complete and formal integration of the Canadian with the American capital market would have on the Canadian economy. It is based largely on recent trade statistics, particularly those of the period when the exchange rate floated. In summary, the short- and long-run effects could both be beneficial to Canada. This study is a convenient ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • A Leader and a Laggard

    Manufacturing Industry in Nova Scotia, Quebec and Ontario

    by Roy George ...
    Series series Heritage
    Advanced countries in all parts of the world are concerned with the geographical unevenness of their development. Canada's preoccupation is with the Atlantic provinces, and for years government departments and agencies have tried to improve the region's economy. However, the evidence suggests that the economic gap between the Atlantic provinces and the rest of Canada has remained remarkably ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Direct Foreign Investment in Asia and the Pacific

    Edited by Peter Drysdale ...
    Series series Heritage
    This volume appears at a time when there is tremendous interest in direct investment of one country in the industry of another. It brings together papers by leading economists from North America, Australia and Asia, and provides an excellent introduction to this currently important economic issue.The contributions include original and comprehensive surveys of experience with, and policies towards, ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The TRACE Econometric Model of the Canadian Economy

    Series series Heritage
    The TRACE (Toronto annual Canadian econometric) model is an annual, non-linear econometric model of the Canadian economy designed primarily to forecast the statistics which appear in the principal tables of the Canadian National Income and Expenditure Accounts. TRACE is the first Canadian econometric model from which a published ex ante forecast has been made. In this book the authors describe the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Federalism and Policy Development

    The Case of Adult Occupational Training in Ontario

    Series series Heritage
    In 1966 the Canadian government announced the abrupt termination of a longstanding conditional grant relationship with the provinces in the domain of technical and vocational education. It sought to substitute a radically new arrangement whereby it would purchase occupational training for adults as an integral part of an over-all manpower policy. This book examines what ensued with particular ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Imperial Economic Policy 1917-1939

    by Ian Drummond ...
    Series series Heritage
    This book offers a detailed account, based on primary source materials from Britain, Canada, and Australia, of the process by which the Empire settlement programme and the Ottawa Agreements were devised. It also traces the effects of both, placing them in the general contexts of British economic policy-making, imperial economic diplomacy and the contemporary concern with economic imperialism. Its ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • A Theory of the Expenditure Budgetary Process

    Series series Heritage
    This crisp, provocative, lively, sometimes opinionated analysis is an important contribution to the scanty Canadian literature on the politics of the budgetary process. It is an important theoretical contribution to the study of political decision-making made by an economist.Speaking from personal experiences of the administrative struggles that lie behind evolving federal expenditure priorities, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Tariff and Science Policies

    Applications of a Model of Nationalism

    Series series Heritage
    This controversial analysis of economic nationalism will interest economists and those concerned with nationalism and the competitive position of Canadian manufacturing. It is the first attempt to test empirically an economic model of nationalism, a model which implies than an emphasis on nationalism ultimately reduces economic efficiency – with low-income groups bearing most of the resultant cost ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Economic Constitution of Federal States

    Series series Heritage
    A study of "economic imperialism" based on a theoretical inquiry into the most important research frontier in the scholarly field: the analysis of constitutions. The book evaluates constitutional arrangements by the degree to which they economize on the scarcity of resources available in any society, demonstrating a preference for constitutions that make governments efficient. ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Unemployment and Labour Force Behaviour of Young People

    Evidence from Canada and Ontario

    Series series Heritage
    While the unemployment rate for young people has always tended to be well above the average, this tendency has been greatly accentuated in recent years. There is a large turnover in the youth labour force, and the employment of experience of those between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five has been marked by seasonal variations. This study discusses the factors which contribute to the high youth ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • 'An Impartial Umpire'

    Industrial Relations and the Canadian State 1900-1911

    by Paul Craven ...
    Series series Heritage
    This book is an insightful and detailed analysis of Canadian labour relations policy at the beginning of the 20th century, and of the formulation of distinctive features which still characterize it today. The development and reception of this policy are explained as a product of ideological and economic forces. These include the impact of international unionism on the Canadian working class, the ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Poverty and Famines

    An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation

    by Amartya Sen ...
    The main focus of this book is on the causation of starvation in general and of famines in particular. The author develops the alternative method of analysis—the 'entitlement approach'—concentrating on ownership and exchange, not on food supply. The book also provides a general analysis of the characterization and measurement of poverty. Various approaches used in economics, sociology, and ... Read more

    $53.99 USD