Rev. of Social science and the ignoble savage, by Ronald L. Meek

Rev. of Global trade and conflicting national interests, by R.E. Gomory and W.J. Baumol

John Rae and the contemporary proponents of the economics of competitiveness assert that traditional treatments of economic growth, development, and trade have not taken into account the ability of technological progress to overcome diminishing returns to investment. Unlike the contemporary advocate...

This paper examines the behavioral parameters of the IS equations for eight countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The empirical results show an overall destabilizing effect rooted in the parameters of the IS functions. The study lends support to the view that recourse to external financing, to balance th...

The purpose of this paper is to determine whether the development of the financial sector has been accompanied by economic growth in a sample of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and to further investigate whether some causal pattern emerges which might lend support to the view that financial intermed...

Sri Lanka was the first South Asian nation to embark upon a comprehensive package of economic liberalization and deregulation. This paper examines the growth, employment and distributional effects of economic liberalization and deregulation in Sri Lanka. During the post-1977 era of liberalization, S...

Rev. of The Prosperous Years: the Economic-History of Ontario, 1939-1975, by K.J. Rea

Rev. of Harold Adams Innis, by D. Creighton

Canadian economics was heretical from its beginnings. It was the voice of the politically and economically not yet established, a voice trying to develop a sort of economics capable of helping them to deal with the particular problems of a small, open, balkanized, and dependent economy. The Canadian...