00000nam 2200000za 4500 9.862727 CaOODSP 20221107161108 cr ||||||||||| 181003s1985 onc o f000 0 eng d CaOODSP eng eng fre n-cn--- EC22-3/1985-295E-PDF Kirsch, Elaine. Crown corporations as instruments of public policy [electronic resource] : a legal and institutional perspective / by Elaine Kirsch. Legal and institutional perspective Ottawa : Economic Council of Canada, 1985. iv, 154, 2 p. Discussion paper ; no. 295 "December 1985." Digitized edition from print [produced by the Publishing and Depository Services Directorate]. Includes bibliographic references. "The paper puts forward the following fundamental proposition: there are numerous "Costs" to Canadian public enterprise which derive directly from the legal and institutional environment within which it operates. If we follow the general thrust of economic theory and assume that private (rather than public) enterprise is the most efficient format for maximizing firm profits, it follows that, to be "valid", such Costs must be associated with achievement of some objective of public policy other than pure profit-making. To the extent that this is not so, the Cost should be eliminated"--Abstract, p. iv. Includes abstract in French. gccst Crown corporations gccst Government policy gccst Fiscal policy Economic Council of Canada. Discussion paper (Economic Council of Canada) no. 295 (CaOODSP)9.855540 PDF 15.01 MB https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2018/ecc/EC22-3-1985-295-eng.pdf