JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.Abstract. At the end of his life Harry Johnson had become pessimistic about the prospects for economic policy in Canada. This pessimism was based largely on the fear that the desire to modify the principles of competition to achieve a more just society would combine with the interest of the government and its bureaucracy in extending the government's share of national resources and its regulatory activity to create a trend towards a fully regulated and bureaucratized society. The extent to which Johnson's pessimism may be justified is examined in relation to four broad areas of Canadian policy since the mid-1960s: stabilization policies, trade and industrial policies, tax policies, and income redistribution policies. Politique economique canadienne: quelques perspectives suggerees par les travaux d'Harry Johnson. A la fin de sa vie, Harry Johnson etait devenu pessimiste quant aux futuribles de la politique economique au Canada. Ce pessimisme avait sa source dans une crainte que la determination apportee a modifier les fondements de la concurrence afin de se donner acces a un societe juste n'en arrive a engendrer une collusion des inter&ts gouvernementaux et bureaucratiques pour augmenter la part du gouvernement dans l'utilisation des ressources nationales et pour etendre l'activite regulatrice de l'Etat. Johnson d6tectait une tendance vers une soci6te bureaucratis6e et pleinement reglement6e. Jusqu'a quel point est-ce que ce pessimisme etait justifie: l'auteur examine la question en analysant quatre champs d'activite de la politique economique canadienne depuis le milieu des annees 1960les politiques de stabilisation, les politiques commerciales et industrielles, les politiques fiscales et les politiques de redistribution du revenu.
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