A reissue of the second edition of a best-selling textbook on Canadian economic development, originally published in 1993. It covers Canada's economic development from the first European settlement to the 1980s.
Richard Pomfret is Professor of Economics at the University of Adelaide, Australia, and Adjunct Professor in International Economics, The Johns Hopkins University Bologna Center, Italy.
He has been a Visiting Professor at Fudan University, Shanghai; Simon Fraser University, Canada; Thammasat University, Bangkok; Vanderbilt University, Nashville; the University of Florence; SciencesPo, Paris; Institut für Weltwirtschaft, Kiel, Germany; Université Paris XII; University of Trento, Italy; The Johns Hopkins University Washington DC and Nanjing, China. In 1992-4 he was seconded to the United Nations, advising governments in new independent states of Central Asia, and he has been consultant to multilateral institutions including the Arab Monetary Fund, Asian Development Bank, European Union, OECD, the World Bank and the World Health Organization.
