TY - BOOK AU - Cohen, Dian AU - Shannon, Kristin TI - The Next Canadian economy SN - 920792448 AV - HC 113 .C64 1984 PY - 1984/// CY - Montreal PB - Eden Press KW - CANADA -- ECONOMY N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Chapter 1. Is Anyone Minding the Store? -- Chapter 2. The Good Old Days -- Chapter 3. Information: The Currency of the New Age -- Chapter 4. The Economists -- Chapter 5. Jobless Growth -- Chapter 6. Downsizing: Big Business in the Eighties -- Chapter 7. The Mandarins -- Chapter 8. The Money Managers -- Chapter 9. The Siren Song of Small Business -- Chapter 10. Voting with Their Feet: The Taxpayer Revolt -- Chapter 11. Star Wars -- Chapter 12. The Politics of Transition -- Chapter 13. The Challenge of Restraint: Confrontation or Cooperation -- Chapter 14 - The Soft Revolution -- Chapter 15 - The First Law of Wing Walking N2 - In this book, we explore what will happen to Canada in the transition to the next Canadian economy, "If this goes on ..." In the last chapter, we speculate as to what might happen "If only . ..," and throughout, we take a look at some of the "wild cards" being tossed our way with the new technologies bumping up against institutions left over from the last economy, particularly the habits of mind we all fell into during the industrial age ER -