{"product_id":"the-creation-of-regional-dependency-9780802065100","title":"The Creation of Regional Dependency","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCertain regions of Canada suffer chronically from social and economic underdevelopment. Economists, geographers, and sociologists have written voluminously about the problem; politicians and policy-makers have mounted grand schemes in a vain effort to rectify imbalances; and planners have created and implemented programs in order to satisfy political exigencies, vested power elites, or the discontent of the Canadian citizens who inhabit these regions.\u003cbr\u003e Matthews, in a lucid, systematic analysis of regionalism and regional underdevelopment in Canada (particularly Atlantic Canada), takes us through the academic cant, political puffery, and bureaucratic bumbling to show how regional disparity and regional underdevelopment are the result of exploitation by powerful central Canadian interests – often acting in concert with and aided by the federal government, and too often armed with theoretical models and justifications designed by ‘establishment’ economists to","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359183765847,"sku":"9780802065100","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780802065100.jpg?v=1754123916","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-creation-of-regional-dependency-9780802065100","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}