Remaking liberalism : the intellectual legacy of Adam Shortt, O.D. Skelton, W.C. Clark, and W.A. Mackintosh, 1890-1925 / Barry Ferguson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ferguson, Barry, 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liberalism--Canada.

Liberalism.

Economics--Canada.

Economics.

Physical Description:

xv, 303 p. ; 24 cm.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Adam Shortt began teaching political economy at Queen's University in the late 1880s. His theories attracted students and faculty who were interested in applying the new tenets of economics and political science to questions of Canadian public policy. The concerns of the group that formed around Shortt were broad and self-consciously cumulative, a perspective promoted particularly by Shortt's colleague and successor O.D. Skelton. The group encouraged reassessment of the role of the social scientist in the university and society, and analysed contentious economic and political questions of the day. Addressing economic policies such as industrialization, foreign investment, labour-business relations, and prairie settlement, they examined the political and governmental ramifications of economic problems, concentrating on the role of political parties, the broad role of government, the place of the public service, and ethnic, class, and regional political relations. Ferguson demonstrates that Shortt, Skelton, Clark, and Mackintosh clearly argued on behalf of the new liberalism, emphasizing individual rights and positive government. He suggests that their ideas reveal an intellectual position which differed from the imperialist and continentalist alternatives that dominated Canadian thinking at the time.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

The New Political Economy and the New University: The Case of Queen’s

Industrialism, Democracy, and the Promise of Political Economy

Imperialism, Nationalism, and Political Economy

Capitalism, Socialism, and the State

The Reform of Government

The War for Democracy

Financing a Liberal Democracy

The Agrarian Origins of Canadian Democracy

An Agenda for Post-War Canada

Queen’s Political Economists and the New Liberalism

Notes

A Note on Sources

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-85660-X

9786612856600

0-7735-6426-8

OCLC:

732601086