Business Cycles in Canada: The Postwar Experience and Policy Directions

by Maurice Lamontagne

Book Overview

Written in 1984, this book is a powerful argument for seeing economic depression as the trough of a long historical cycle that has much more to do with transitions in technology and the social climate than with price shocks and government intervention. Drawing on extensive business literature and his own first-hand experience in Canadian economic policy-making, Maurice Lamontagne anatomizes the workings of the three types of business cycle: the short-term...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0888627130
• ISBN13: 9780888627131
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Lorimer
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 9.0"