num_pages: 216
description: Focusing on the Depression, Second World War, and early post-War period, Robert Ascah examines the interaction of politics and capital markets in Canada from the perspective of the debt management function. Ascah's insightful study explores the Dominion Government's dealings with domestic and international finance capital and their reaction to the policies of Alberta's Social Credit government, and in particular the April 1936 default.
language: English
title: Politics and Public Debt: The Dominion, the Banks and Alberta's Social Credit
titlecomplete: Politics and Public Debt: The Dominion, the Banks and Alberta's Social Credit
ratings_count: 1
publisher: University of Alberta Press