Sum of the Satisfactions

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Sum of the Satisfactions

Canada in the Age of National Accounting

Economics, Finance, Business and Management Economic history Accounting Public finance and taxation

Author: Duncan Mcdowall

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Language: English

Published by: McGill-Queen's University Press

Published on: 15th July 2009

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 2 Mb

ISBN: 9780773578524


Introduction

Determined to banish the ravages of the Depression, win the war, and build a better post-war world, Canadian academics and mandarins applied the ideas of Keynes and Kuznets to the Canadian predicament - a highly regionalized nation interested in building a society that harnessed both the private and public sector to the goal of economic stability and increased national wealth.

Today’s Perspective

Today, Canadians know that they can trust the numbers put before them by their national accountants, numbers that support the working culture of our economic citizenship.

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