How Powerful Was the National Policy? The Lesson of the Cotton Mills

Michael N.A. Hinton, Thomas Barbiero and Min Seong Kim
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Michael N.A. Hinton: Minerva’s Owl Consulting Economists Ltd
Thomas Barbiero: Ryerson University
Min Seong Kim: Ryerson University

Review of Economic Analysis, 2014, vol. 6, issue 1, 53-67

Abstract: Historians have claimed that Canadian manufacturing grew in the nineteenth century largely because of the National Policy tariff. . In the case of the cotton textile sector, our findings cast serious doubt on the long-standing idea that the National Policy was indispensable to the growth of Canadian manufacturing before WWI.

Keywords: National Policy; tariff effectiveness; cotton textile; economic growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F11 F13 F14 N61 N71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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