Rethinking Canadian Economic Growth and Development since 1900 The Q
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 hist
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Palgrave Studies in Economic History is designed to illuminate and enrich our understanding of economies and economic phenomena of the past. The series covers a vast range of topics including financial history, labour history, development economics, commercialisation, urbanisation, industrialisation, modernisation, globalisation, and changes in world economic orders. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14632
Vincent Geloso
Rethinking Canadian Economic Growth and Development since 1900 The Quebec Case Foreword by Conrad Black
Vincent Geloso Economic History London School of Economics Saint-Lambert, Québec, Canada Translation from the French by Jordan Arseneault
Palgrave Studies in Economic History ISBN 978-3-319-49949-9 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-49950-5
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To all those who actually cared and still care
Foreword
It is 40 years since I published my biography of Maurice Duplessis, which assaulted the fervently held conventional wisdom that he had been a retardant to the social and economic progress of Québec, and a despotic and almost medieval anachronism who riveted himself on the back of Québec by trickery, repression, corruption, and electoral fraud. In that book, I published a number of figures and tables that demonstra
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