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Business & Economics Economic History

Controlling Inflation

Learning from Experience in Canada, Europe and Japan

by (author) Clarence Barber & John McCallum

Publisher
James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
Initial publish date
Jan 1982
Category
Economic History
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780888625861
    Publish Date
    Jan 1982
    List Price
    $16.95
  • 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.

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