Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Mel Watkins and the Foundations of the New Canadian Political Economy* xiii
5. The Staple Theory of Development
6. A Staple Theory of Economic Growth (1963) 5
7. The Staple Theory Revisited (1977) 30
8. The Dene Nation: From Underdevelopment to Development (1977) 51
9. Canadian Capitalism in Transition (1997) 71
10. Trade and Investment
11. The American System and Canada’s National Policy (1967) 93
12. A New National Policy (1968) 105
13. The US-Canada Free Trade Agreement (1988) 122
14. The Waffle and the National Question (1990) 131
15. Foreign Ownership and Canadian Nationalism: Reflections on the Watkins Report (1994) 135
16. The Car and Canadian Political Economy: An Innisian Perspective (1994) 144
17. Economics and Political Economy
18. The Dismal State of Economics in Canada (1970) 169
19. The Economics of Nationalism and the Nationality of Economics: A Critique of Neoclassical Theorizing (1978) 180
20. The Innis Tradition in Canadian Political Economy (1982) 212
21. Economics, Politics and the Relevance of Social Democracy (1989) 237
22. The Intellectual and the Public: A Neo-Innisian Perspective on the Contemporary English Canadian Condition (1994) 250
23. Index 266