The engine or the caboose? Resource industries and twentieth-century Canadian economic performance

Journal of Economic History

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-32

  Keay, Ian ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT; LABOR; NATURAL RESOURCE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 33947700383     PISSN: 00220507     EISSN: 14716372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022050707000010     Document Type: Article

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