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Scapegoats or Responsive Entrepreneurs: Canadian Manufacturers, 1907-1990

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  • Keay, Ian, 2000. "Scapegoats or Responsive Entrepreneurs: Canadian Manufacturers, 1907-1990," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 37(3), pages 217-240, July.
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    2. Gillian C. Hamilton & Ian Keay & Frank D. Lewis, 2017. "Contributions to Canadian economic history: The last 30 years," Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 50(5), pages 1632-1657, December.
    3. Byron Lew & Bruce Cater, 2018. "Farm mechanization on an otherwise ‘featureless’ plain: tractors on the Northern Great Plains and immigration policy of the 1920s," Cliometrica, Springer;Cliometric Society (Association Francaise de Cliométrie), vol. 12(2), pages 181-218, May.

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