The paper examines an important contribution of Hyman P. Minsky to Post-Keynesian economic analysis: his financial fragility hypothesis. Because of its lack of Keynesian macroeconomic foundation, the authors show how his famous hypothesis is built on a rather faulty theoretical analysis....

Canada faces grave challenges in its ocean fisheries. The problems include the collapse of Atlantic groundfish stocks in the early 1990s, international disputes over shared and straddling fisheries, conflicts among competing fishers, and low incomes and overcapitalization in many important...

L'objectif de ce travail est d'etudier le lien entre le developpement d'une enclave industrielle et le flux d'iimigration en provenance des iles Britanniques au milieu du 19e siecle. En tenant compte de la position strategique des villes portuaires du Bas-Canada dans le flux de migration...

New Zealand, beginning in 1984, implemented a virtual economic revolution that involved trade liberalization, privatization of state assets and crown corporations, deregulation of labour markets, the establishment of an independent central bank, a major reform of public finances and taxes, and a...

This paper analyses and compares the Canadian francophone minorities of Ontario and New Brunswick in order to see how well they have done in preserving their identity and in achieving economic success.

Rent and stumpage in the british Columbia (BC) softwood lumber industry have played a pivotal role in the Canada-United States softwood lumber dispute. The goal of the US in the dispute has been to limit lumber exports from Canada and increase domestic US prices.

This paper concerns the earnings mobility of individuals in the Canadian labour market. It is inspired by the growing economics literature on the growing inequality of the earnings distributions in North America. The majority of the studies that deal with Canada, such as the well-known work by...

Canada's Pacific salmon fisheries are again in a crisis of declining stocks, excess fishing effort and poor returns. Changes in fisheries management which may help resolve some of these problems include licence buy-backs, individual transferable quotas, additional effort controls, single gear...