In this essay I review Sylvia Nasar's long awaited new history of economics, Grand Pursuit. I describe how the book is … an economic history of the period from 1850-1950, with distinguished economists' stories inserted in appropriate places …. Nasar's goal is to show how economists work, but also to show that they are people too - with more than enough warts and …

stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported … provides a new possibility for the complementary testing of theories across fields in economics. Third, we inquire how the … insights gained from the study of individual happiness in economics affect public policy. …

Immigrants ascend to citizenship at differential rates in Canada. Why is this so? This paper investigates the economic …

Canada?s treasury circa 1996 over their life cycle. Naturalized citizens from OECD countries contributed the largest public …

This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 … Census. Earnings are shown to increase with schooling, pre-immigration experience and duration in Canada, as well as with … in Canada on earnings. …

. Workplace effects, however, reduce the wage gap by 14.5% in Canada and increase the gap by 3.2% in Britain. …

We examine the evolution of the returns to human capital in Canada over the period 1980-2005. Our main finding is that …