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A Very Brief History of Federal Cash Transfers: Canada 1867 to 2017
This is a post in celebration of Canada’s 150th and similar in time span to my previous one on housing supply and dwelling starts. Canada is a federation and a key feature of its operation is a system of intergovernmental transfers between its fiscal tiers. Indeed, transfers and regional equity are enshrined in Section 36 […]
Bank of Canada Governors and Economic Performance: A Canada Day Celebration
Another Canada Day, another year of Confederation – we are now 148 years old– and another opportunity for taking a historical look at some economic aspects of Canada. For your Canada Day musings, I decided to take a look at economic indicators according to the tenure of Bank of Canada Governors since 1934 (the legislation […]
Economics, History and the Shrinking Middle
As an economic historian by training, I’m always aware of the unique ground straddled by practitioners of the cliometric craft. We are economists by training and in terms of many of the questions we are interested in, but much of our research focuses on collection and analysis of primary sources.
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