Potatoes contribute one-third of total farm cash receipts in Prince Edward Island, Canada, and account for 20-25% of total Canadian potato production, and over 50% of total Canadian potato exports. Fluctuations in prices, production and exports have considerable affect on the Province's economy. A m...

Rev. of A poverty of reason: sustainable development and economic growth, by Wilfred Beckerman

Rev. of Ideas in exile, by J.J. Brown

Given the tremendous volatility of commodity prices, models used to test the efficiency of futures markets often contain unstable parameter estimates. This instability may cause the results of hypothesis tests to become sensitive to the sample period. As a result, tests based on constant parameter s...

The metropolitan thesis of N. S. B. Gras has been used in examining the development of several of Canada's foremost cities, and its use in a more general approach to Canadian urban history has been persuasively argued by J. M. S. Careless. While the model is useful, simplistic interpretations o...