Overview
- Argues against the 'Great Darkness' thesis that states Quebec was backwards before 1960 by demonstrating through cliometrics that Quebec actually closed the gap between itself and the rest of Canada (and the United States) between 1945 and 1960 after decades of relative stagnation
- Provides a counterfactual portrait of the Quiet Revolution
- Answers the questions: Would present-day Québec really be that different if the State had been less interventionist? Was the notion of the Great Darkness invented to expunge the Quiet Revolution and its concomitant policies of accountability for their negative consequences?
- Examines policies that led to an awakening of French Canadian entrepreneurship as well as a population-wide shift in thinking about industrialization, economic development, and the business world
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Economic History (PEHS)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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About this book
The period from 1945 to 1960, infamously labelled the Great Gloom (Grande Noirceur), was in fact a breaking point where the previous decades of relative decline were overturned – Geloso argues that this era should be considered the Great Convergence (Grand Rattrapage). In opposition, the Quiet Revolution that followed after 1960 did not accelerate these trends. In fact, there are signs of slowing down and relative decline that appearafter the 1970s. The author posits that the Quiet Revolution sowed the seeds for a growth slowdown by crowding-out social capital and inciting rent-seeking behaviour on the part of interest groups.
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Book Title: Rethinking Canadian Economic Growth and Development since 1900
Book Subtitle: The Quebec Case
Authors: Vincent Geloso
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Economic History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49950-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-49949-9Published: 29 March 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84282-0Published: 08 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-49950-5Published: 20 March 2017
Series ISSN: 2662-6497
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6500
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 212
Number of Illustrations: 64 b/w illustrations
Topics: Economic History, Economic Growth, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Labor Economics, Public Economics