Book Review: Canada, the United States and Canada
| Published date | 01 June 1965 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070206502000217 |
| Date | 01 June 1965 |
| Author | John Conway |
| Subject Matter | Book Review |
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JOURNAL
fixed
rate.
Instead,
in
his
penultimate
page
he
apparently
advocates,
for
both countries,
an
incomes
(wages)
policy
that
would
hold
costs
down
to the
level
that
could
sustain
exports
sufficient
to balance
trade
under a
fixed
exchange
rate.
At
the
best,
this
is
a
very
short-run
view.
In
the
long-run,
a
mini-
mum
wage
policy
can
do
little
but
reinforce
the
action
of
the
market,
and
a
maximum-wage
policy
can
by
itself
only
promote
emigration.
The
tariff
and
the
exchange
rate
are
much
more
potent instruments
and both
countries
are
just
beginning
to
explore
their
more
discriminat-
ing use.
This
is
a
disappointing
conclusion to
a
seventy-page
comparison.
But
the
layman
should
not
be
deterred from reading
for
himself.
A
great
deal
of
information
and
opinion
is
scrupulously
reported, and
the
author's
own
views
rarely
intrude: the
book
is
primarily
a
survey.
The
specialist,
too,
can
gain
not
only
from
the
marshalling
of
the
evidence
but from
the careful
documentation.
Although
there
is
little
reason
to expect
Australia
and
Canada
to
make
similar
decisions
in
the
future, there
are
sectors
that
are
certainly
much
alike,
and
prob-
lems
(such
as
that
of
fiscal
policy
among
federal
states,
attitudes
to
exchange-rate
variability
instead
of
internal
price
adjustment
to
world
market
changes,
and
the
role
of
the
tariff),
that
will
certainly
repay
further,
and
formal,
study.
University
of
British
Columbia
ANTHONY
SCOTT
THE
UNITED
STATES
AND
CANADA.
Edited
by
John
Sloan
Dickey.
1964.
(Englewood
Cliffs,
N.J.
Toronto: Prentice-Hall.
viii,
184pp.
$4.30)
In
April,
1964,
the
twenty-fifth American
Assembly
on
The
United
States
and
Canada
met
at
Arden
House
on
the
Harriman
campus
of
Columbia
University.
This volume consists
of
the
papers
prepared
by
a
distinguished
group
of
Canadian and
American
scholars
as
back-
ground
reading
for
the
Assembly.
In
his
introduction
the
editor,
Dr.
John
Sloan
Dickey,
expresses
the
hope
that
the
six
studies
included
"will
further
the
realization
on
both
sides
of
the
border
that
'Canada
and
the
United
States'
is
today
and
will
be
tomorrow
something
more
than
the
sum
of
its
parts;
that
it
is
a
relationship
with
its
own
indi-
viduality and
its
own
organic integrity."
In
the
opinion
of
the
reviewer
this
hope
has
been
largely
realized.
The
relationship
between
the two
countrie
is
unique.
It
has
no
exact
or
even
very
close
parallel
in
the
world
today. In
some
ways, in
terms
of
economic
reality
for
example,
the
long
Canadian-American
border
makes
little
sense.
It
is
not
sur-
prising
that
increasingly
voices
are
heard
which
urge
upon
the
two
countries
at
least
economic
union.
There
has
been
in
the
Canadian past
and
there
is
today
a
school
of
thought
which
would
go
all
the
way
to
political
union
as
well.
But
the
Canadian-American
situation
does
not
lend
itself
to
as
simple
solutions
as
the
geographic
and
economic
facts
would
suggest.
There
exists and
as
far
as
we
can
see
there
will
continue
to
exist a
stubborn
Canadian
conviction
that
Canada
should
not
and
will
not
be
absorbed
into
the
American
union.
How
is
this
conviction
to
be
reconciled
with American
power
and
international
responsibility?
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