Dan Usher is a Professor of economics at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. He is the author of The Price Mechanism and the Meaning of National Income Statistics (1969), The Measurement of Economic Growth (1980), The Economic Prerequisite to Democracy (1981), The Welfare Economics of Markets, Voting and Predation (1993) and two volumes of collected papers, National Accounting and Economic Theory and Welfare Economics and Public Finance (1994).
On the Canadian scene, Usher has been concerned for some time about the reorganization of English Canada in the event of the separation of Quebec. His papers on this theme include The English Response to the Separation of Quebec, Canadian Public Policy, 1978, HowShould the Redistributive Power of the State be Divided between Federal and Provincial Governments? Canadian Public Policy, 1980, The Design of a Government for an English Canadian Country, in D.D. Purvis ed., Economic Dimensions of Constitutional Change, 1991 and The Interests of English Canada, Canadian Public Policy, 1995.