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Lessons from a Successfully Export-Oriented, Resource-Rich Economy: Quantitative Adventures into Canada's Past

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Altman, Morris

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Abstract

1 Introduction: Myth and Reality in Canadian Economic History -- 2 Back to the Future: Reflections on the Canadian Economy in International Context -- 3 Growth Theory and Economic History: A Staple Perspective -- 4 Economic Growth and Development in Early Canada -- 5 The Economic Impact of the Seigniorial Tenure in Early Canada -- 6 Quebec Agriculture in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Comparing French Canadian and Non-French Farmers -- 7 Economic Development with High Wages: Economic Development in Central Canadian Manufacturing at the Turn of the Twentieth Century -- 8 Resource Endowments and Economic Development: Why Location and the Bounties of Nature Can't Explain Quebec's Laggard Economic Performance in the Pre-World War One Period -- 9 Railways as an Engine of Economic Growth? Who Benefited from the Canadian Railway Boom? -- 10 Manufacturing Growth in Canada and the Canadian Wheat Boom: New Light on an Old Question -- 11 New Historical Canadian Output Estimates: Implications for an Understanding of Canadian Economic Development, 1870-1926 -- 12 How Long Did Canadian Workers Actually Work? The Struggle for a Shorter Work Week and Workers Standard Of Living Before the Great Depression -- 13 Gender Pay Inequality and Occupational Change in Canada, in the Early Twentieth Century -- 14 On the Natural Intelligence of Women: How the Feminization of Clerical Work Contributed to Gender Pay Equality in Early Twentieth Century Canada.