The New Era of Global Competition: State Policy and Market PowerDaniel Drache, Meric S. Gertler McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 1991 - 450 pages The contributors first analyse recent public-sector initiatives that have altered the Canadian economy and transformed Canadian society. These include monetarist macroeconomic policies, a trade deal with the United States, and the increasing use of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to make regulatory decisions. The contributors then analyse the consequences of these changes for some of Canada's key industries and for Canadian social policy, noting the conservative agenda's effect on workers' incomes, work conditions, social benefits, and the role of the state in the economy. The final chapters explore possible alternatives and the difficult but very real choices economic and social policy makers must make with respect to macroeconomic management, employment, industrial strategy, and the environment. The contributors to this volume are Isabella Bakker, Duncan Cameron, Stephen Clarkson, Marjorie Cohen, Robert Cox, Arthur Donner, Daniel Drache, Colin Duncan, Meric S. Gertler, John Holmes, Jeanne Laux, Rianne Mahon, Michael Mandel, Anthony Masi, Jon Morris, John Myles, Paul Phillips, Abraham Rotstein, Frank Tester, Bruce Wilkinson. |
Contents
The | 3 |
The Three Rs | 26 |
Fortress Europe versus Fortress | 51 |
Free Trade and the Paradox of Canadian | 103 |
Rights and the New Era of Global Competition | 127 |
RESTRUCTURING | 151 |
Structural Adjustment and Technological Change in | 181 |
A Japanization of Canadian Industry? | 206 |
Shaping or Serving Markets? Public Ownership after | 288 |
Some Issues for Labour | 316 |
The Global Political Economy and Social Choice | 335 |
PostIndustrialism and the Service Economy | 350 |
Options for Industrial | 367 |
Canada and the Global Crisis in Resource Development | 399 |
For a Second Economy | 415 |
How Can We | 435 |
Reaching the Limits | 229 |
National | 249 |
Canadas Social Wage in an Open Economy 19701983 | 270 |
Note on Contributors | 449 |
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