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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797145803321

Autore

Brecher Irving

Titolo

Monetary and fiscal thought and policy in Canada 1919-1939 / / Irving Brecher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Toronto, Ontario] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1957

©1957

ISBN

1-4426-5078-8

1-4426-3240-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (350 p.)

Collana

Heritage

Disciplina

332.4971

Soggetti

Currency question - Canada

Finance, Public - Canada

Canada

Canada Politique economique

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Contents -- TABLES -- CHARTS -- Preface -- I: The Problem in Its General Setting -- PART I: THE DECADE OF THE TWENTIES -- II: East and West in Canadian Economic Thought -- III: The Impact of Monetary Thought on Policy -- IV Thought and Policy in Fiscal Development -- PART II: THE BACKGROUND OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION -- V: Canada in the World Economy -- VI: Changing Canadian Views on "Stability" Problems -- PART III: THE MONETARY REVOLUTION OF THE THIRTIES -- VII: The Inflation Controversy -- VIII: The End of the Central Bank Controversy -- IX: Canadian Monetary Policy in Depression and Recovery -- PART IV: FISCAL CHANGE IN THE THIRTIES -- X: Fiscal Thinking in Canada -- Old and New -- XI: Canadian Fiscal Policy in Depression and Recovery -- XII: Thought and Policy in Retrospect -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y.

Sommario/riassunto

In this careful and thorough study of a Canadian field which has been relatively untouched in recent years, Dr. Brecher records and comments on the development of monetary and fiscal thinking in Canada in the



inter-war period, and its impact on public policy in the federal sphere.