Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. 1. 'A city of pigs': the intellectual community and social crisis 1895-1914 1
5. 2. The intellectual and the state 1900-14 29
6. 3. The social sciences and the search for authority 1906-16 50
7. 4. Statism and democracy 1914-18 80
8. 5. The social sciences and the service state 1919-29 107
9. 6. The formation of a new reform elite 1930-5 135
10. 7. Moving into the inner councils 1930-5 160
11. 8. The 'new millennialists': economics in the 1930s 192
12. 9. The problem of national unity and the Rowell-Sirois Report 1935-40 221
13. 10. Bureaucracy, war, and reform 1939-42 254
14. 11. The triumph of macro-economic management 1943-5 285
15. 12. Epilogue The Dominion-provincial conference on reconstruction - the limits of success 318
16. Note on sources 335
17. Notes 339
18. Index 393