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Political Science Economic Policy

Planning and the Economy

Building Federal-Provincial Consensus

by (author) Hugh Thorburn

Publisher
James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
Initial publish date
Jan 1984
Category
Economic Policy, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780888626950
    Publish Date
    Jan 1984
    List Price
    $14.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781552771921
    Publish Date
    Feb 2008
    List Price
    $45.00

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Since World War II, the way economic policy has been formed both in Canada and abroad has changed radically. This book shows that the course taken in Canada has much to do with the crisis in the Canadian economy in the post-war period.

Thornburn examines the response of other Western nations to the changing economic order of the postwar world, and then turns to an analysis of Canadian economic policy-making at the federal level and in all ten provinces. Thorburn points to the need for a central planning agency to correct the drift in Canada's economic policy.

First published in 1984, Planning and the Economy is a strongly argued entry into the vital debates over Canadian political and economic policy in the early 1980s.

About the author

HUGH THORBURN is a Emeritus Professor in the Department of Political Studies at Queens University.

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