In 2010, the Société canadienne de science économique (SCSE) celebrated its 50th anniversary. First association of economists in Canada, it was founded in October 1960 in order to group together French-speaking economists and to promote the advancement of economics as a discipline. This...

The historical study of the public finances in Canada is hampered by the very weak statistical base, especially prior to the 1950s. The reason may be that the primary source of data, the Public Accounts, need to be extensively rearranged before one can obtain consistent time series. L’absence...

This article presents the history of the academic journal L'Actualité économique since its beginnings in 1925. We investigate the evolution of the journal through its orientation, its authors and its content. To our knowledge, such an exercise has never been undertaken. Among other things, we...

Social sciences recently witnessed an increase in multidisciplinary studies. Economists are part of this movement. Do they have an impact on other disciplines? Few studies are concerned with the transfer of knowledge from one discipline to another. Our paper tries to shed some light on this...