Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-7cvxr Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-26T21:58:02.117Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

A Comment on Canadian Post-War Monetary Policy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

Harry C. Eastman
Harry C. Eastman*
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
Get access

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Article Commentary
Information
Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science/Revue canadienne de economiques et science politique , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , August 1955 , pp. 363 - 364
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association 1955

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 This Journal, XX, no. 2, May, 1954, 207–26.

2 See my article, “Recent Canadian Economic Policy: Some Alternatives,” this Journal, XVIII, no. 2, 05, 1952, 135–45.Google Scholar

3 In 1946, when our current surplus was of $363 million, loans and advances were drawn down by $750 million; in 1947, the surplus fell to $49 million and the drawings to $565 million; in 1948, the surplus rose to $451 million and the drawings had been cut down to only $142 million. Other capital movements were quite overshadowed by the governmental loans.

4 The important exception to this generalization is the demand for Canadian wheat, for imports into the United States were then, as they are now, subject to a quota.