Rethinking Canadian Economic Growth and Development since 1900

The Quebec Case

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
XXI, 212 Seiten
2017 | 1st ed. 2017
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-49949-9 (ISBN)

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Rethinking Canadian Economic Growth and Development since 1900 - Vincent Geloso
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This book upturns many established ideas regarding the economic and social history of Quebec, the Canadian province that is home to the majority of its French population. It places the case of Quebec into the wider question of convergence in economic history and whether proactive governments delay or halt convergence.  
The period from 1945 to 1960, infamously labelled the Great Gloom (Grande Noirceur), was in fact a breaking point where the previous decades of relative decline were overturned - Geloso argues that this era should be considered the Great Convergence (Grand Rattrapage). In opposition, the Quiet Revolution that followed after 1960 did not accelerate these trends. In fact, there are signs of slowing down and relative decline that appearafter the 1970s. The author posits that the Quiet Revolution sowed the seeds for a growth slowdown by crowding-out social capital and inciting rent-seeking behaviour on the part of interest groups. 

Vincent Geloso is a post-doctoral fellow at Texas Tech University, USA. He earned his PhD at the London School of Economics, UK. His research interests include Economic History and the Economics of Religion, and he has published in Journal of Population Research, Economics Bulletin, Agricultural History Review, Essays in Economic and Business History and Economic Affairs. He is also an economics blogger at the Journal de Montréal, the largest French newspaper in Canada.

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Québec's economic development from 1900 to 1939.- Chapter 3. The Great Catch-Up of 1945-1960: Economic conditions.- Chapter 4. The Great Catch-Up of 1945-1960: Health and Education.- Chapter 5. The Great Catch-Up of 1945-1960: Quebeckers' social behaviour and the Church.- Chapter 6. Explaining the Great Stagnation.- Chapter 7. Explaining the transition to the Great Catch-up.- Chapter 8. The Quiet Decline (1960-today): Economic conditions.- Chapter 9. The Quiet Decline (1960-today): Education.- Chapter 10. Explaining the Quiet Decline.- Chapter 11. Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Palgrave Studies in Economic History
Zusatzinfo XXI, 212 p. 64 illus.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Wirtschaft Allgemeines / Lexika
Schlagworte Canada • Cliometrics • Comparative Economics • Economic Growth • Economic History • Economics • Economics and finance • Great darkness • Great gloom thesis • Labor Economics • Labour Economics • Macroeconomics • Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Econo • Monetary Economics • New Institutional Economics • Public Choice Theory • Public Economics • Public finance and taxation • Quiet Revolution • Real wage
ISBN-10 3-319-49949-1 / 3319499491
ISBN-13 978-3-319-49949-9 / 9783319499499
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