Staples and Beyond: Selected Writings of Mel Watkins 9780773576933

Mel Watkins is an iconic figure in the development of the "new" political economy in Canada. Since the 1960s h

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Staples and Beyond: Selected Writings of Mel Watkins
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Table of contents :
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)
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