Internal economic control in war-time : Canada.

The growth of world capitalism has brought with it a spectacular development of state intervention in the functioning of the economic system. The creature of the classical economists, Laissez-Faire, never applied fully, for even in its hey-day, there was a measure of government participation in determining the conditions under which the economy functioned. And as the process of industrialization worked its way and spread, Laissez-Faire increasingly gave way to an ever-expanding measure of restriction from within its own institutions and from the state. [...