Staples and Beyond : Selected Writings of Mel Watkins.

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 -- 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.

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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