Author : Kenneth Buckley
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,83 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Capital
ISBN : 0771097778
Through capital formation, the changes of the era are analysed: for instance, the boom in the wheat economy, the growth of the railways and the expansion of cities.
Author : William Thomas Easterbrook
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 47,39 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780886290214
Focusing mainly on the staple theory, this collection of essays clearly shows the impact the great staple trades from cod and fur to newsprint and oil had upon Canadian history. Other significant frames of reference-the role of government, the development of commercial agriculture, the climate of enterprise and capital formation-are also represented.
Author : M.H. Watkins
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,4 MB
Release : 2000-02-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0773585257
Contemporary methodologies include the "cliometric" style of historical analysis, econometrics, labour and regional study, and the changing parameters of government spending and public finance. The juxtaposition of classic theoretical statements with works by "outsiders" such as G.S. Kealey, B.D. Palmer, R.T. Naylor, R.E Ommer, among others, makes this a solid yet innovative record of the progress in economics over the last forty years. Canadian Economic History remains an essential classroom text.
Author : N. Harvey Lithwick
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,33 MB
Release : 1967-12-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1487586485
This timely study fills some serious gaps in the historical record of economic development in Canada and compares it with that in the United States pointing out the parallels in development that have resulted from similarities in tastes and technologies and the high degree of monility between two economies. In addition, it clarifies certain mistaken notions about the Canadian economy by evaluating the sources of past growth and anticipating the potential open to the country. This edition includes a chapter which examines Canadian experience over the past decade and compares it with that of the United States. This work will be valuable to economists, policy makers and the informed layman. There is a minimal amount of complex mathematics and the bulk of the statistical material is relegated to the apendices.
Author : A. E. Safarian
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 45,12 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Canada
ISBN : 0773537023
An updated classic on Canada's Great Depression with insights for the current global financial crisis
Author : R. F Holland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 37,8 MB
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136284273
Scholars have recently begun to pay renewed attention to the economics of empire, focusing in particular on the requirements of metropolitan Britain's economy and on the activities of imperial businesses. Within this broad field, financial questions, not least the subject of investment overseas or the 'export of capital', have long had a prominent place, and have been equally affected by the development of new appraoches. The consensus as to the volume and direction of Britain's overseas investments is being vigorously challenged. Technological advances have encouraged on a greatly enlarged scale the compilation and analysis of information about British investments and shareholdings abroad. The gradual easing of restrictions on business records has increased facilities for the study, especially, of imperial and colonial banking. Work on the financial policies of central governments is revealing much of interest to students of twentieth-century colonial rule and decolonization. This collection of essays brings together a selection of the latest research on these and other themes, and, for comparative purposes, includes examples of recent continental work.
Author : Deirdre N. McCloskey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 39,51 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521403276
Historians and economists will find here what their fields have in common - the movement since the 1950s known variously as 'cliometrics', 'economic history', or 'historical economics'. A leading figure in the movement, Donald McCloskey, has compiled, with the help of George Hersh and a panel of distinguished advisors, a highly comprehensive bibliography of historical economics covering the period up until 1980. The book will be useful to all economic historians, as well as quantitative historians, applied economists, historical demographers, business historians, national income accountants, and social historians.
Author : Lance E. Davis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1002 pages
File Size : 35,72 MB
Release : 2001-05-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781139427180
This study examines the impact of British capital flows on the evolution of capital markets in four countries - Argentina, Australia, Canada, and the United States - over the years 1870 to 1914. In substantive chapters on each country it offers parallel histories of the evolution of their financial infrastructures - commercial banks, non-bank intermediaries, primary security markets, formal secondary security markets, and the institutions that provide the international financial links connecting the frontier country with the British capital market. At one level, the work constitutes a quantitative history of the development of the capital markets of five countries in the late nineteenth century. At a second level, it provides the basis for a useable taxonomy for the study of institutional invention and innovation. At a third, it suggests some lessons from the past about modern policy issues.
Author : Rick Helmes-Hayes
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 48,74 MB
Release : 2010-01-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1442698748
Measuring the Mosaic is a comprehensive intellectual biography of John Porter (1921-1979), author of The Vertical Mosaic (1965), preeminent Canadian sociologist of his time, and one of Canada's most celebrated scholars. In the first biography of this important figure, Rick Helmes-Hayes provides a detailed account of Porter's life and an in-depth assessment of his extensive writings on class, power, educational opportunity, social mobility, and democracy. While assessing Porter's place in the historical development of Canadian social science, Helmes-Hayes also examines the economic, social, political and scholarly circumstances - including the Depression, World War II, post-war reconstruction, the baby boom, and the growth of universities - that contoured Porter's political and academic views. Using extensive archival research, correspondence, and over fifty original interviews with family, colleagues, and friends, Measuring the Mosaic stresses Porter's remarkable contributions as a scholar, academic statesman, senior administrator at Carleton University, and engaged, practical public intellectual.
Author : Michael M. Atkinson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 10,83 MB
Release : 1989-12-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1442655135
The late twentieth century has seen profound changes in the character of the international economic order. According to the authors of this study, Canada has failed to come to terms with those changes. Our industrial policy is diffuse, ad hoc, and sectoral. Michael Atkinson and William Coleman argue that in order to analyse Canada’s industrial policy effectively, particular attention must be given to industry organization, state structures, and systems of interest intermediation at the sectoral level. To make such an analysis they introduce the concept of policy network, and apply it to three types of industrial sectors: the research-intensive sectors of telecommunications manufacturing and pharmaceuticals; the rapidly changing sectors of petrochemicals and meat processing; and the contracting and troubled sectors of textiles, clothing, and dairy processing. Through the lens of these sectors Coleman and Atkinson shed considerable light on the intersection of political considerations and policy development, and offer a new base on which to move forward in planning for economic growth.
