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Moose Pastures and Mergers: The Ontario Securities Commission and the Regulation of Share Markets in Canada, 1940-1980
Contributor(s): Armstrong, Chris (Author)

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ISBN: 144265760X     ISBN-13: 9781442657601
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
OUR PRICE: $33.20  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: December 2001
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Canada - Post-confederation (1867-)
- Business & Economics | Economic History
- Law | Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice
Dewey: 346.7
Physical Information: 1.01" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" L (1.45 lbs) 432 pages
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- Cultural Region - Canadian
Features: Illustrated
 
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Long before the spectacular collapse of Bre-X in 1997, the Canadian capital markets had their share of swindlers and crooks. In the boom times after Second World War, hard-sell speculative mining ventures, pushing what often amounted to a few acres of moose pasture, riddled over-the-counter markets and the TSE. It was in this context that the Ontario Securities Commission developed into Canada's leading securities regulator. Following the war, the OSC concerned itself primarily with fraudsters and attempts to reign in Toronto's boiler rooms, but by the mid-sixties increasingly sophisticated markets and a series of scandals culminating in the Windfall affair resulted in a rewriting of the Securities Act and a widening of the OSC's investor protection mandate. The seventies tested the Commission's new powers as increased corporate merger activity brought the phrase "insider-trading" into the popular lexicon.

Surprisingly, considering that capital markets have such a profound impact on Canada's well-being, this is the first thorough study of the their post-war evolution and regulation. Moose Pastures and Mergers takes off where the author's acclaimed previous work, Blue Skies and Boiler Rooms: Buying and Selling Securities in Canada, 1870 - 1940, left off. With an ear for a good story - seedy personalities, bunglers and guileless victims abound - and a scholar's rigour, Armstrong has met the protean beast of share markets head on and revealed its shape for the timid or the merely baffled. Essential reading for business journalists, securities lawyers, academics, and interested investors.

Winner of the J.J. Talman Award presented by the Ontario Historical Society


Contributor Bio(s): Armstrong, Chris: - Christopher Armstrong is a professor emeritus in the Department of History at York University and the author or co-author of ten books.
 
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