Business & Economics Economic History
Controlling Inflation
Learning from Experience in Canada, Europe and Japan
- Publisher
- James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1982
- Category
- Economic History
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780888625861
- Publish Date
- Jan 1982
- List Price
- $16.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780888625878
- Publish Date
- Jan 1982
- List Price
- $45.00
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Published in 1982, this book examines how eighteen Western countries dealt with extraordinary inflationary pressures of the 1970s.
The authors weigh the alternatives of tax-based incomes policies versus outright wage and price controls, and analyze the record of controls implemented in the U.S. and Canada. They conclude that the Anti-Inflation Board controls of 1975-78 reduced inflation, and were equal in their effects on wages and profits.
Controlling Inflation offers a close analysis of the range of responses framed to meet the most pressing economic challenge faced by Western economies in the 1970s.
About the authors
CLARENCE BARBER is Professor Emeritus of the University of Manitoba. He is a member of the Royal Society of Canada, this country\s highest recognition of scholarly excellence. '
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JOHN McCALLUM has taught economics the University of Manitoba, Simon Fraser University, the University of Qu�bec at Montr�al and McGill University. He was elected as a Member of Provincial Parliament for Markham, Ontario.