Description
Book SynopsisIn Canadian Political Economy, experts from a number of disciplinary backgrounds come together to explore Canada’s empirical political economy and the field''s contributions to theory and debate. Considering both historical and contemporary approaches to CPE, the contributors pay particular attention to key actors and institutions, as well as developments in Canadian political-economic policies and practices, explored through themes of changes, crises, and conflicts in CPE. Offering up-to-date interpretations, analyses, and descriptions, Canadian Political Economy is accessibly written and suitable for students and scholars. In 17 chapters, the book’s topics include theory, history, inequality, work, free trade and fair trade, co-operatives, banking and finance, the environment, indigeneity, and the gendered politics of political economy. Linking longstanding debates with current developments, this volume represents both a state-of-the-discipline and a st
Table of Contents
List of Tables List of Figures Contributors Introduction: Changes, Crises, and Conflicts in Canadian Political Economy (Heather Whiteside) Section 1: Approaches to Canadian Political Economy 1. Historical Canadian Political Economy (Eric Helleiner) 2. Dependent Technological Change: The Long Arc of Canadian Innovation and Political Economic Development (Bruce Smardon) 3. Canada’s Continental Political Economy (Stephen McBride) 4. “Give me the Land, Call her by her Name”: Colonial Crisis, Treaty Relationships and Indigenous Women’s Futurities (Gina Starblanket and Elaine Coburn) 5. Canadian Ecological Political Economy (Angela V. Carter) Section 2: Agents in Canadian Political Economy 6. The Politics of Public Administration: Constructing the Neoliberal State (Bryan Evans) 7. Political Economy and the Canadian Working Class: Conflict, Crisis and Change (Charles W. Smith) 8. Corporations and Corporate Power (Jamie Brownlee) 9. Co-operatives (Julie L. MacArthur) 10. The Political Economy of the Non-profit Sector (Meghan Joy and John Shields) Section 3. Applications of Canadian Political Economy 11. Inequality (John Peters) 12. Urban Political Economy, Poverty and Inequality in Canada (Carlo Fanelli and Carol-Anne Hudson) 13. The Political Economy of Social Policy in Canada (Peter Graefe) 14. Canadian Trade and Trade Agreements: Free or Fair? (Gavin Fridell) 15. Money and Finance (Mario Seccareccia and David Pringle) Conclusion: Advancing Canadian Political Economy (Heather Whiteside)
