Staples and Beyond
Selected Writings of Mel Watkins
1st Edition
Published on 6. October 2006
304 pages
978-0-7735-7693-3 (ISBN)
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Mel Watkins is an iconic figure in the development of the "new" political economy in Canada. Since the 1960s he has combined scholarly writing with political activism for a range of issues, from Canada's economic dependency on the US to the role of social democratic parties to aboriginal rights.
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Mel Watkins is professor emeritus, economics and political science, University of Toronto, and adjunct professor, Institute of political Economy, Carleton University. Hugh Grant is a professor, economics, University of Winnipeg. David A. Wolfe is a profMel Watkins is professor emeritus, economics and political science, University of Toronto, and adjunct professor, Institute of political Economy, Carleton University. Hugh Grant is a professor, economics, University of Winnipeg. David A. Wolfe is a prof
Mel Watkins is professor emeritus, economics and political science, University of Toronto, and adjunct professor, Institute of political Economy, Carleton University. Hugh Grant is a professor, economics, University of Winnipeg. David A. Wolfe is a profMel Watkins is professor emeritus, economics and political science, University of Toronto, and adjunct professor, Institute of political Economy, Carleton University. Hugh Grant is a professor, economics, University of Winnipeg. David A. Wolfe is a prof
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Mel Watkins and the Foundations of the New Canadian Political Economy
- PART ONE: THE STAPLY THEORY OF DEVELOPMENT
- 1 A Staple Theory of Economic Growth (1963)
- 2 The Staple Theory Revisited (1977)
- 3 The Dene Nation: From Underdevelopment to Development (1977)
- 4 Canadian Capitalism in Transition (1997)
- PART TWO: TRADE AND INVESTMENT
- 5 The American System and Canada's National Policy (1967)
- 6 A New National Policy (1968)
- 7 The US-Canada Free Trade Agreement (1988)
- 8 The Waffle and the National Question (1990)
- 9 Foreign Ownership and Canadian Nationalism: Reflections on the Watkins Report (1993)
- 10 The Car and Canadian Political Economy: An Innisian Perspective (1994)
- PART THREE: ECONOMICS AND POLITIGAL ECONOMY
- 11 The Dismal State of Economics in Canada (1970)
- 12 The Economics of Nationalism and the Nationality of Economics: A Critique of Neoclassical Theorizing (1978)
- 13 The Innis Tradition in Canadian Political Economy (1982)
- 14 Economics, Politics and the Relevance of Social Democracy (1989)
- 15 The Intellectual and the Public: A Neo-Innisian Perspective on the Contemporary English Canadian Condition (1994)
- Index
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