7 The Queen’s Conspiracy and the National Employment Commission: Ottawa, 1936–1938

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vi
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Illustrations xiii
5. Preface 3
6. Beginnings
7. Educational Pioneering in Old Ontario: Madoc, 1895–1912 25
8. Queen’s Undergraduate: Kingston, Wiwa Hills, and Indian Head, 1912–1916 35
9. Harvard’s Traditional Philology and the Unfenced Prairie: Cambridge and Brandon, 1916–1919 52
10. Agricultural Cooperation in Western Canada: Cambridge and Sintaluta, 1919–1920 74
11. Canadian Political Economy and the Origins of the Staple Thesis
12. Queensian Economics: Kingston, 1920–1928 89
13. Wheat as Staple: Kingston and Europe, 1928–1936 113
14. How Keynesianism Came to Canada
15. The Queen’s Conspiracy and the National Employment Commission: Ottawa, 1936–1938 152
16. The Royal Commission on Dominion-Provincial Relations: Ottawa, 1938–1939 173
17. “The Economist’s War”: Ottawa, 1939–1943 197
18. International Reconstruction: Ottawa, London, Washington, and Bretton Woods, 1941–1946 232
19. Domestic Reconstruction, the White Paper, and the Green Book: Ottawa, 1941–1946 268
20. A Ruling Passion: Queen’s University
21. Queen’s After the War: Kingston, 1946–1951 301
22. The Principal Lecturer: Kingston, 1951–1961 327
23. The Royal Commission on Banking and Finance and After: Ottawa and Kingston, 1961–1970 363
24. Legacy 385
25. Notes 403
26. Bibliography 507
27. Index 535