Staples and Beyond : Selected Writings of Mel Watkins

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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Year of publication:	2014
Authors:	Watkins, Mel
Publisher:	Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press
Subject:	Wirtschaftspolitik \| Economic policy \| Wirtschaftswissenschaft \| Economics \| Kanada \| Canada \| Wirtschaftswachstum \| Economic growth \| Wirtschaftsordnung \| Economic system \| Marktwirtschaft \| Market economy \| Nation
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [gbv.de]

Extent:	Online-Ressource (302 p)
Series:	Carleton library series ; 210
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record ""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 Canadaâ€?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""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""
ISBN:	978-0-7735-3144-4 ; 978-0-7735-7693-3 ; 978-0-7735-3144-4
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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