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| EST. READ TIME 1 MIN.Probing Leviathan: An Investigation of Government in the Economy
Authority over economic decisions is rapidly being transferred from the private to the public sector.
The contributors to this book provide a wide range of professional opinion and empirical findings about the decline of the market sector as an allocator of resources and the prospects for the mixed economy. The authors address several important questions including: why government grows, why there is dissatisfaction with expansion of the role of government, and where the growth of government is likely to take us.
These highly readable essays provide not only a clear analysis of how government intervention has spread, but also a call to resist the growing role of government.
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George Lermer
George Lermer is the Dean of the Faculty of Management of the University of Lethbridge. George Lermer received a B.Sc.from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.A. and Ph.D. from McGill University. From 1962 to 1974, he taught at various Canadian universities including Concordia University and the University of Waterloo. He was senior economist at the Economic Council of Canada (1974-76), studying the regulation of financial institutions and markets and contributing to Efficiency and Regulation, in preparation for the revision of The Bank Act. As director of the Resources Branch, Bureau of Competition Policy, Consumer Affairs Canada (1976-81), he specialized in the enforcement of the Combines Investigation Act in the agriculture and energy industries. In 1980 he was seconded to the Privy Council of Canada, Federal-Provincial Office of the Task Force for the Renewal of Federalism. He has extensive experience as a consulting economist with government departments and private clients. He has advised clients on trade practices, competition policy, industrial structure, and economic regulation, especially of agriculture. The author and editor of several books and numerous articles, his most recent publication is AECL-An Evaluation of a Crown Corporation as a Strategist in a Global Entrepreneurial Industry (Economic Council of Canada).… Read more