Many criticise the Canadian economy, of its abysmal performance, of how some provinces are being left behind, high national debt and exorbitant tax rates. However, in 1992 Canada ranked as the best country in the world to live, based on GDP per capita, life expectancy, literacy rates and years...

Estimates of the quantitative attributes of Canadian economic history, such as total output, manufacturing output, labour productivity, and price changes, have, with the application of more sophisticated methods of data collection and compilation, undergone significant revision since the 1950s....

The Staple Theory of economic growth and development was first articulated to help explain the process of economic evolution in places with an abundance of natural resources and a relatively small population. The theory assumes that only by exporting staples products and importing manufacturing...

The staple theory was developed as an analytical framework to help explain the economic evolution of countries which have a relative abundance of land and natural resources, such as Canada. It can also be used to determine under what conditions staple-related economic activity positively...

This essay surveys some of the key themes in Southern economic history and traces the development of the region through the colonial and revolutionary eras, the antebellum period, the Civil War and Reconstruction, the post-bellum period, and the modern period. In particular, I highlight the...

This paper evaluates the link between the diffusion of electricity and the increase in labour productivity growth in the manufacturing sector during the inter-war period. A comparative analysis of the USA, Britain, Germany, and Japan shows that the trend acceleration in labour productivity is...

Since its inception, supporters of the Jones Act have claimed that the law is essential to U.S. national security. Although indefensible on economic grounds, Jones Act advocates argue that its restrictions promote the development of both a U.S. merchant marine and shipbuilding and repair...

For more than a decade now [i.e., ca. 1983], historians of technology in the United States have been engaged in a collective historiographic endeavor to generate a "conceptual framework" or set of "organizing themes" that would finally give some coherence to the history of technology as an...

Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century has attracted more attention than it perhaps deserves given that its main empirical claim, that wealth inequality is bound to occur in "capitalist" economies because the rate of return r is greater than the rate of economic growth g (r g), is not rigorously...