The Keynesian Arithmetic in War-Time Canada: The Development of the National Accounts, 1939–1945. By Enid Barnett. Kingston, ON: Harbinger House, 1998, 2000. Pp. 91. $14.95, paper. The War Budget of September 1939: Keynes Comes to Canada. By Enid Barnett. Kingston, ON: Harbinger House, 2000. Pp. 64. $24.95, paper. Keynes's How to Pay for the War in Canada: The Story of Compulsory Savings, 1939–1944. By Enid Barnett. Kingston, ON: Harbinger House, 2001. Pp. 125. $24.95, paper

Penny Bryden

The Journal of Economic History, 2001, vol. 61, issue 3, 860-861

Abstract: Taken together, these three short monographs tell a portion of the story of how the Canadian federal civil service embraced and applied Keynesian ideas during the Second World War. Parts of the tale have been told elsewhere and with considerably more finesse; others have been generally overlooked and receive their first full explanation here in the work of Enid Barnett. Unfortunately, important components of the application of Keynesian ideas in the Canadian context are missing entirely from these volumes, and thus the series as a whole is incomplete and offers only a partial introduction to the complexities of wartime finance and reconstruction planning.

Date: 2001
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