Capital Transfers and Economic Policy: Canada, 1951-1962

by Richard E. Caves and Grant L. Reuber

Between 1951 and 1962 nearly ten billion dollars in long-term capital (both direct investment and purchase of securities) flowed into Canada. This massive amount represented one third of all long-term capital moving among industrial nations. Its transfer marked the first time since before World War I that the world witnessed such a large-scale international movement of capital motivated primarily by a prospect of higher rates of return.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674094859
• ISBN13: 9780674094857
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.8" x 8.6"