The Role of Staple Industries in Canada's Economic Development*

Kenneth Buckley

The Journal of Economic History, 1958, vol. 18, issue 4, 439-450

Abstract: Applications of the staple approach by the late Harold Innis d by others influenced by Innis have produced many studies which, taken together, provide a remarkably coherent, plausible, and apparently consistent account of Canada's economic growth and history. In this paper I distinguish between the staple theory as a theory of economic development and as an economic interpretation of history and argue that the staple theory of Canada's economic development breaks down after 1820. In the conclusion I suggest an alternative, complementary approach to the study of the country's economic growth.

Date: 1958
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