Bladen was appointed its Managing Editor-a position he held for the next twelve years-and the JOURNAL was (as it still is) published by the University of Toronto Press.4 For the seven years (1928-34) before the establishment of CJEPS in February 1935, the University of Toronto published an annual paperback volume entitled Contributions to Canadian Economics. This series contained documents and articles on Canada's economic history, employment problems, business developments, banking problems, agricultural economics, governmental fiscal developments, and international economics. These seven books contained some thirty articles, half from professors at the University of Toronto and the other half from professors at Queen's, McGill, Alberta, British Columbia, McMaster, and Dalhousie, and from senior economists in the federal civil service. Queen's University also published a series entitled Queen's University Bulletins. These pamphlets appeared about four times a year from 1910 to 1928, and about half of them dealt with economics, including articles' on price problems, bank inspection, business cycles, federal finance, agricultural development, and so on. From 1927 to 1934 McMaster University also published frequent bulletins under the title Canadian Economic Service; most of its bulletins dealt with current fiscal and banking developments, domestic and external trade, and business and trade union problems. Before 1935 there had been, of course, a good number of articles on economics and the political sciences printed in the Queen's Quarterly (1893+), University of Toronto Quarterly (1931+), the Dalhousie Review (1920+), and the Canadian Banker (1893+), all of which were quarterlies. The establishment of the present JOURNAL, however, provided a special forum for the work of economists, political scientists, and sociologists. But with the increase in the number of students, the forces of specialization latent in every science, and the realization of the public value of informed opinion bearing of social problems, not only have the departments in the universities proliferated and split (as the universities have done themselves) but so also do our associations and our journals. This vigorous growth has all occurred within eighty or ninety years-the span of one long lifetime. ...
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Feb 1, 1969
David Simpson 