Understanding the Canadian Economy:
The Capitalist Development of Canada

Part I-Economics, Political Economy, Development Theory and Economic Structure
Introduction

1. The Political Economy Background to Canadian Economic Development
2. An Overview of Capitalist Development Processes
3. Some Structural Characteristics of the Canadian Economy
4. Types of Economic and Social Systems: Plantation, Family Farm and Capitalism

Part II-Capitalist Evolution, And The Early Staple Trades In Canada
Introduction to Part II

5. European Influences and the Evolution of Capitalism
6. Early Staple Production in North America
7. Migration of Labour and Capital and Economic Development in Canada and United States in the Nineteenth Century

Part III-The State In Canada's Economic Development
Introduction to Part III

8. The State in Canadian Economic Development I: Development Strategy
9. The State in Canadian Economic Development II: Tariff Protection, Free Trade, Cumulative Causation and Canadian Economic and Social Development
10. The State in Canadian Economic Development III: The Economic Background to Dominion Provincial Relations

Part IV-Alternative Development Strategies-Capitalist And Social Democratic
Introduction to Part IV

11. The Crisis and the Mythology of Pro-Business Strategies for Capitalist Restructuring
12. Alternatives to and Critiques of Capitalism I: The Church and God against Capitalism
13. Alternatives to and Critiques of Capitalism II: The Social Democratic Alternative Economic Strategy

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