"Canadian social programs were designed for a world in which most people graduated from high school, then found a permanent job with benefits that, barring unforeseen accidents, they would hold until they retired with a pension - all under the benevolent eye of their workplace union. In the last...

This study moves away from the usual depiction of Say as a one dimensional popularizer of Smith and proponent of libertarian ideology. Here he is placed in context, at the confluence of several major currents in social philosophy