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The Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 21, 2023
Entity authorityQ7721145 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science was an academic journal established in 1928. From 1928 to 1934 it was published under the title Contributions to Canadian Economics. In 1967–1968 the journal was split into the Canadian Journal of Economics and the Canadian Journal of Political Science.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1928, 1934, 1967, 1968—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1935-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Canadian, Journal and Economics can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as journal. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 21, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q7721145. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1928, 1934, 1967 and 1968.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.