Lessons from a successfully export-oriented, resource-rich economy : quantitative adventures into Canada's past /: quantitative adventures into Canada's past. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Morris Altman.
• Authors: Altman, Morris
• Contents: 1 Introduction: Myth and Reality in Canadian Economic History.- 2 Back to the Future: Reflections on the Canadian Economy in International Context.- 3 Growth Theory and Economic History: A Staple Perspective.- 4 Economic Growth and Development in Early Canada.- 5 The Economic Impact of the Seigniorial Tenure in Early Canada.- 6 Quebec Agriculture in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Comparing French Canadian and Non-French Farmers.- 7 Economic Development with High Wages: Economic Development in Central Canadian Manufacturing at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.- 8 Resource Endowments and Economic Development: Why Location and the Bounties of Nature Can't Explain Quebec's Laggard Economic Performance in the Pre-World War One Period.- 9 Railways as an Engine of Economic Growth? Who Benefited from the Canadian Railway Boom?.- 10 Manufacturing Growth in Canada and the Canadian Wheat Boom: New Light on an Old Question.- 11 New Historical Canadian Output Estimates: Implications for an Understanding of Canadian Economic Development, 1870-1926.- 12 How Long Did Canadian Workers Actually Work? The Struggle for a Shorter Work Week and Workers Standard Of Living Before the Great Depression.- 13 Gender Pay Inequality and Occupational Change in Canada, in the Early Twentieth Century.- 14 On the Natural Intelligence of Women: How the Feminization of Clerical Work Contributed to Gender Pay Equality in Early Twentieth Century Canada.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 382.0971; Exports -- Canada; Natural resources -- Canada; Canada -- Economic conditions; Canada -- Economic policy; Canada -- Commerce -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783031038877
• Related ISBNs: 9783031038860
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