Jeffrey McNairn, Queen's University

Research

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Latest funding

Studies in the cultural history of taxation in Canada
SSHRC · 2007 · Co-investigator
$88,000
Insolvent, imprisoned, bankrupt: failure and the law in common-law British North America, 1752-1869
SSHRC · 2006 · Principal investigator
$48,010
Canadian Research Chairs in Canadian History
SSHRC · 2002 · Principal investigator
$500,000

All 3 grants and awards

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Studies in the cultural history of taxation in Canada

Co-investigatorSSHRC2007Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Tillotson, Shirley M.

Keywords: taxation; history; Canada; political culture

$88,000

Insolvent, imprisoned, bankrupt: failure and the law in common-law British North America, 1752-1869

Principal investigatorSSHRC2006Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: McNairn, Jeffrey L.

Keywords: legal and intellectual history of insolvency; imprisonment for debt; bankruptcy; law and economics; intellectual history of the economy; debtor-creditor relations

$48,010

Canadian Research Chairs in Canadian History

Principal investigatorSSHRC2002Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: McNairn, Jeffrey L

Keywords: history of economic ideas and political economy; theories of economic rationality; imperialism and cultural contact; travel and tourism; intellectual history

$500,000

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

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