Several authors maintain that smokers impose a considerable burden on society through hospitalization and medical costs and lost output due to premature death. In this paper, supplementary costs related to smoking are estimated at 669 million dollars for the year 1986 in Canada. However, since...

There are few concepts more common or elementary in economics than that of market. And yet, it still gives rise to deep differences of views. In the eyes of some, the market reaches the world as a whole, for others the typical area of a market is that of a free trade zone or a common market....

André Raynauld questioned the ability of demand management policies to restore equilibrium in the labour market in a context where only about one third of unemployment is Keynesian. He noted that the budgetary multiplier in Canada is only 1,2 in the short term and practically zero in the long...

[fre] Dans cet article, les auteurs appliquent la théorie du commerce international à l'explication des disparités de revenu entre les groupes anglophones et francophones au Québec. On postule que les Canadiens francophones (groupe ethnique F) et les Canadiens anglophones d'origine...