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History of Canadian Business, New edition |
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Back in print - the 1975 classic about the triumph of corporate capitalism during Canada's formative years.
R.T. Naylor traces the insidious interplay of big business and big government in Canada in the period between Confederation and World War I, presenting corruption as the norm rather than an abberation. He tells the often sordid story of the emergence and development of corporate capitalism in Canada during the country's formative years, exposing an epidemic of white-collar crime among the country's elite financial institutions and locating the origins of the modern corporate-welfare state in tax concessions and subsidies. A controversial study that went against the prevailing views of its time, some lauded its publication as an intellectual breakthrough, while others condemned it as a political rant.
An unprecedented work in Canadian historiography, The History of Canadian Business, 1867-1914 has been chosen by the Social Sciences Federation of Canada as one of the twenty most outstanding works in the field in the last half of the twentieth century.
An unprecedented work in Canadian historiography, The History of Canadian Business, 1867-1914 has been chosen by the Social Sciences Federation of Canada as one of the twenty most outstanding works in the field in the last half of the twentieth century.
Details
Part of the Carleton Library Series (number 207 in series)
428 Pages, 6 x 9
ISBN 9780773530881
June 2006
Formats: Cloth, Paperback, eBook
R.T. Naylor is professor, economics, McGill University, and the author of many books, including Economic Warfare: Sanctions, Embargo Busting, and Their Human Cost, and Bankers, Bagmen, and Bandits: Business and Politics in the Age of Greed.
History of Canadian Business
R.T. Naylor
Table of Contents
Abbreviations ix
Tables xii
Foreword to the Carleton Library Edition by Mel Watkins xv
Preface to the Carleton Library Edition by R. T. Naylor xxi
Introduction to the Carleton Library Edition by Paul Phillips xxix
Volume One: The Banks and Finance Capital
1 Introduction: Canadian Mercantilism, 1867-1914 2
2 Revenue, Protection, and the Politics of International Finance 20
3 The Evolution of the Chartered Banking System 66
4 Chartered Bank Failures 118
5 The Rise and Fall of the Private Banking System 156
6 Financial Institutions and the Accumulation of Capital 186
7 Canada and the International Flow of Finance Capital 228
8 High Finance and the Canadian Railways 260
Errata 297
Volume Two: Industrial Development
9 Staple Production and the Canadian Railway 2
10 Patents, Foreign Technology, and Industrial Development 38
11 Commercial Policy and Direct Investment 70
12 Federalism and the Rise of the Corporate Welfare State 104
13 The Bonusing System and Secondary Industry 130
14 The Rise of Big Business 162
15 Reciprocity 202
16 Canadian Commercial and Financial Expansion Abroad 218
17 Conclusion: The Lessons of Development 276
18 Epilogue: Aftermath of the National Policy 286
Glossary of Financial Terminology 299
Bibliography 309
Appendices:
Foreword to the 1975 Edition by Eric Kierans 335
Preface to the 1975 Edition 341
Acknowledgements 347
Index 349
Errata 374
R.T. Naylor
Table of Contents
Abbreviations ix
Tables xii
Foreword to the Carleton Library Edition by Mel Watkins xv
Preface to the Carleton Library Edition by R. T. Naylor xxi
Introduction to the Carleton Library Edition by Paul Phillips xxix
Volume One: The Banks and Finance Capital
1 Introduction: Canadian Mercantilism, 1867-1914 2
2 Revenue, Protection, and the Politics of International Finance 20
3 The Evolution of the Chartered Banking System 66
4 Chartered Bank Failures 118
5 The Rise and Fall of the Private Banking System 156
6 Financial Institutions and the Accumulation of Capital 186
7 Canada and the International Flow of Finance Capital 228
8 High Finance and the Canadian Railways 260
Errata 297
Volume Two: Industrial Development
9 Staple Production and the Canadian Railway 2
10 Patents, Foreign Technology, and Industrial Development 38
11 Commercial Policy and Direct Investment 70
12 Federalism and the Rise of the Corporate Welfare State 104
13 The Bonusing System and Secondary Industry 130
14 The Rise of Big Business 162
15 Reciprocity 202
16 Canadian Commercial and Financial Expansion Abroad 218
17 Conclusion: The Lessons of Development 276
18 Epilogue: Aftermath of the National Policy 286
Glossary of Financial Terminology 299
Bibliography 309
Appendices:
Foreword to the 1975 Edition by Eric Kierans 335
Preface to the 1975 Edition 341
Acknowledgements 347
Index 349
Errata 374
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