For a long time, controversy has surrounded the issue of foreign ownership of the Canadian economy; the most recent subjects of debate have been the National Energy Program, FIRA, and the Canada-US free trade deal. This book examines these debates and analyses the causes of Canada's uniquely
high level of foreign ownership. Using a wide ranging comparative approach, Laxer subjects the standard explanations of Canada's economic dependence to careful and critical scrutiny. He challenges the theories of accepted orthodoxies from Conservative to Marxist, and argues that the assumptions
about external control, the role of Canadian elite and the effects of geography are not adequate to explain Canada's failure at more independent development. Laxer shows that the country was well along the path of industrialization before American branch plants and management took control of the
critical mass of its resources and manufacturing industries.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 332.6/73/0971
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 20
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 0195407342 9780195435139
- LCCN
- HG5152
- LCCN Item number
- L39 1989eb
- Modifying agency
- DLC
- Original cataloging agency
- DLC
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (viii, 247 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00223315 (OCoLC)500909184 (CaOOCEL)432060
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- DLC
Table of Contents
- CONTENTS 4
- PREFACE 6
- INTRODUCTION 10
- 1 Clearing Away the Myths 34
- 2 Late-follower Development 66
- 3 Sweden: Out of the Staple Trap 85
- 4 The Politics of Dependent Industrialization 131
- 5 The Making of a Branch-plant Economy 167
- 6 Open Door to Foreign Ownership 215
- 7 Conclusion 234
- APPENDIX I 243
- A comparison of Alexander Hamilton's charter of the Bank of the United States with the proposed charter of the Bank of Lower Canada 243
- APPENDIX II 249
- Table A: Finished manufactures as percentage of total trade in the main non-Communist industrial countries, plus Australia, 1899, 1913, 1955 249
- Table B: Trade in finished manufactured goods by industrial countries, 1899, 1913, 1955 250
- Table C: Trade in finished manufactured goods excluding textiles and clothing by industrial countries, 1899, 1913, 1955 251
- INDEX 252
- A 252
- B 252
- C 252
- D 253
- E 253
- F 253
- G 253
- H 253
- I 253
- J 254
- K 254
- L 254
- M 254
- N 254
- O 255
- P 255
- Q 255
- R 255
- S 255
- T 256
- U 256
- V 256
- W 256
