Who was Barbara Mitchell?

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This book,  the Health Care Business: International evidence on private versus public health care systems, looks at the evidence from four countries (U.S., Canada, U.K. and Sweden) in proposing new directions to re-establish choice in North American health care delivery systems.

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Can national financial institutions, such as banks, function in a country as regionally diverse as Canada without seeming to discriminate between the regions? Were the complaints of the four Western Premiers at the Western Economic Opportunities Conference in Calgary in 1973 justified? If there is discrimination, would the proposed provincial government B.C. Savings and Trust super bank provide relief from it? What would be the cost of such relief?

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Why is it that the economic mind behind the Prime Minister has few, if any, followers in the economics profession? Why is it that Galbraith's theories have become widely accepted when there is a total lack of support for them?

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In this book, the third in the Fraser Institute Housing Series, Professor L.B. Smith considers the content and objectives of Federal housing policies from 1935 to the present. His conclusions that 1) housing policy is more and more being used as a vehicle for redistributing income in Canada and 2) that this policy is at the same time destroying the private sector's incentive and ability to supply housing, make this book required reading for everybody concerned with housing in Canada today.

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In this book, two Simon Fraser University professors of economics, analyze the social cost of the B.C. milk marketing board. Through trenchant analysis and revealing statistics, the two authors examine the impact of the milk quota system and the extent to which the Board transfers income from consumers to producers.

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This book is the second in the Institute's on-going housing economics series, the first of which was: "Rent Control—A Popular Paradox."

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Worsening inflation produces a growing call for governments to do something about it. A seemingly attractive policy choice is the introduction of wage and price controls. In view of Canada's current anti-inflation program, this study (the second in a three-part series) is particularly timely. This book features two papers; the first, analyzes Britain's eleven periods of wage and price controls since the war, and the second analyzes President Nixon's Economic Stabilization Program which began with the surprising Freeze of August 1971 and ended in April 1974 with Congress refusing to renew authorization.

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