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1. Government Spending Facts Two

   Undoubtedly one of the most pressing economic issues of the 1990s is concern about the level of government expenditures. The ongoing deficits at the federal level as well as the failure of most provinces to balance their budgets, together with the rising ...

2. Waiting Your Turn: Hospital Waiting Lists in Canada, 3rd Edition

   The current Critical Issues Bulletin is the Institute's third attempt to document the extent to which queues are being used as a means of adapting to the conflict between limited budgetary allocations and unlimited demand for free health care. https: ...

3. Assessing NAFTA: A Trinational Analysis

   This book contains a comprehensive assessment of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Authors from all three countries probe different aspects of the deal; they provide an overall assessment as well as detailed examinations of some of the critical ...

4. Waiting Your Turn: Hospital Waiting Lists in Canada, 2nd Edition

   The current Critical Issues Bulletin is the Institute's second attempt to document the extent to which queuing or waiting lists are being used as a means of adapting to the conflict between limited budgetary allocations and unlimited demand for free ...

5. Rating Global Economic Freedom

   This book is a decisive step forward in the intellectual development of the concept of economic freedom. It contributes both to the debate about alternative conceptualizations of economic liberty and to the empirical implementation of the various ...

6. Service Industry Growth: Causes and Effects

   The services economy is pregnant with paradox. It employs our most-skilled and our least-skilled workers. The small productivity increase of service sector workers is regarded as one of the key problems facing us in a future in which four-fifths of the ...

7. Lexicon of Economic Thought

   The only complete A to Z free market analysis of public policy issues in print. Other economics dictionaries provide technical descriptions of economic terminology. The Lexicon is unique in providing a point of view. This easy-to-use reference volume, ...

8. Freedom Democracy and Economic Welfare

   In 1962 Milton Friedman, with Rose Friedman, published Capitalism and Freedom. This book contained the conjecture that there was a fundamental relationship between political freedom and the reliance on markets for the conduct of economic activity. Without ...

9. Focus on Alberta's Industrial and Science Strategy Proposals

   In July 1984, the Government of Alberta released a White Paper entitled Proposals for an Industrial and Science Strategy for Albertans 1985 to 1990. The document was designed to stimulate discussion rather than to give a firm indication of the government& ...

10. Focus on Flat-Rate Tax Proposals

    The purpose of this paper is to examine the quantitative issues involved in a flat-rate tax system and to determine what would be the effects of the adoption of such a system in Canada. Evidently, many of the problems involved in the adoption of such a ...