Business & Economics Fashion & Textile Industry
Profiting the Crown
Canada's Polymer Corporation, 1942-1990
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2005
- Category
- Fashion & Textile Industry, Government & Business
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780773532014
- Publish Date
- Jan 2007
- List Price
- $40.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780773528154
- Publish Date
- Jan 2007
- List Price
- $95.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773572386
- Publish Date
- Jan 2005
- List Price
- $37.95
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Description
Profiting the Crown traces the rise and evolution of Polymer Corporation until its sale in 1990 to the German chemical giant A.G. Bayer. Crown corporations are widely regarded as a Canadian invention, but the failures of many state-run enterprises in the twentieth century have led to the widely held position that government has no place in the boardrooms of the nation. Matthew Bellamy shows how Polymer was both a successful tool of public policy and a profitable economic enterprise, bringing to light the accomplishments of one of Canada's pioneering crown corporations.
About the author
Matthew J. Bellamy is associate professor of history at Carleton University, author of Profiting the Crown: Canada's Polymer Corporation, 1942-1990, and editor of Canada and the Cost of World War II: The International Operations of Canada's Department of Finance, 1939-1947.