At present there are two general points of view on the economy of early Canada. The dominant viewpoint is that the economic system was stagnant, due to the exaggerated concentration on the fur trade and insufficiencies of internal and external markets. This viewpoint is disputed with the...

We discuss theoretical approaches to study the relationship between the size distribution of a nation's cities and macroeconomic growth. The discussion is based on the hypothesis of the New Growth Theory that inter-personal spillovers of education and skills determine the long-run growth of the...