Looking For Bootstraps

Donald Savoie

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Looking For Bootstraps

Economic Development in the Maritimes

  Author:   Donald Savoie    
  Publisher:  Nimbus Publishing

In 2006, award-winning author Donald Savoie wrote a seminal book on economic development in the Maritimes: Visiting Grandchildren. His plans were “to exit the field with this book.” A decade later, he marks his return to that subject with Looking for Bootstraps. Concerned about the region’s future, he sought to explore and explain the reasons behind its lack of economic development. The result will spark a much-needed debate about the future of the Maritime provinces.

Drawing on his past involvement in regional development (senior policy advisor to former minister of DREE; involvement in establishment of ACOA) and on his earlier work, Savoie brings a fresh perspective to an age-old problem and ask the tough questions: Why has the Maritime region not developed as well as other Canadian regions, and what can we do about it?
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ISBN associated with this title: 9781771084819
Item NB1289
PublisherNimbus Publishing
PublisherNimbus Publishing
Published on June 2 2017
Language eng
Pages 440
Format Hardcover
Dimensions9(in) x 6(in)
Shipping weight791(g)
Status ACTIVE TITLE
Donald Savoie
Donald Savoie holds the Canada Research Chair in Public Administration and Governance (Tier 1) at the Université de Moncton. He has won numerous awards, including the 2016 Donner Prize for What Is Government Good At? He has been made an Officer of the Order of Canada (1993), elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1992), and received seven honorary doctorates from Canadian universities.

Quick Quotes

"His latest book, Looking For Bootstraps, gives a brief, but comprehensive overview of the attempts at economic development in the region since Confederation ... Savoie thinks that in terms of political influence at the centre of power in Ottawa, the Maritimes have never been weaker." —The Guardian (Charlottetown, PEI)
  

"It's only August, but I'm pretty certain that the most significant new book published in Atlantic Canada in 2017 will turn out to be Donald Savoie's." —Telegraph-Journal (Saint John, NB)
  

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