Following the age of pioneers (1900-55), economic science in Quebec has developed in three stages: take-off (1955-70), construction (1970-85) and maturity (1985- ). During take-off, Quebec economists were trained in Europe, focused on the local economy, and were influential by their action as...

Pierre Fortin agreed on the importance of structural unemployment and the need to combat it. He stressed however, that the increase in unemployment by 5 percentage points since the beginning of the 1981 recession was entirely due to an abrupt decrease in global demand having no structural...

All modern industrial societies have now entered a regime of low fertility that is the outcome of profound and lasting causes (in particular, technological) and is accompanied by a radical and permanent change in the role of women. The resulting demographic slowdown will no doubt have favourable...