The Bank of Canada of James Elliot Coyne: Challenges, Confrontation, and Change

by James Powell

William McChesney Martin, former chairman of the US Federal Reserve, famously quipped that a central bank's role is to "take away the punch bowl just when the party gets going." This role has often led to a difficult relationship between a central bank and the government. Nowhere is this difficulty better exemplified than in the turbulent relationship between the Bank of Canada of James Coyne and the Conservative government of John Diefenbaker. In...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773535993
• ISBN13: 9780773535992
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"