Economics 221, Canadian Economic History

FALL, 2013

Instructor: Professor Robin Neill
Office: Main 324
Office Hours: 10:00-11:00am, Monday through Friday
..........and by appointment
Phone: 566-0763
E-mail: rneill@upei.ca
Web page: http://people.upei.ca/rneill

Place: Main 211
Time: , Mon. Wed. Fri., 12:30 - 1:20pm

Text: AS THE TWIG IS BENT:
.......... Globalization and Continentalization,
.......... Canadian Economic Development, 1600-2000
.......... 2013 Edition

Grading:
.....Students will submit a ten page, double spaced, "typed"
essay on Paradigms in Canadian Economic History.
The essay will be worth 40% of the final grade.
It will be handed in no later than one week before the last
class of the term. There will be no extensions whatsoever.

Because a comparison of Canadian and Chinese economic
development is a leit motif in this course, a paper comparing
paradigms (patterns of development) in Canadian and Chinese
economic history would be more than welcome.

.....There will be a final examination worth 60% of
students' final grades.

Class announcements will appear on the NEWS FORUM
.....To access the NEWS FORUM
.........."Click on" NEWS FORUM below
..........then proceed by embodied instructions (trial and error)

NEWS FORUM

If you have any questions, comments, or complaints
Email: rneill@upei.ca

Topics

This course (221) is an account of the rise and decline of the nation state from the Age of Sail, through the Canal Era, and the Railway Epoch, to the Time of Telematics at the end of the Internal Combustion and Electric Dynamo Period. They present a chronicle of National Economic Policy, in its historical context, beginning with the rise of the European mercantilist nation state, and ending with the submergence of the transcontinental nation state in multi-national trading blocks and global markets.

The question asked is, What have been the very long run economic factors in globalization of the Euro-American economy? The answer will focus on the Canadian case.

Economics 221

PLEASE NOTE: the treatment on the web was put in place in 1996.
The hard copy of the material in the Library is a 2007 revision of the
same material. The course [221] will use a later, 2013, substantial revision in
hard copy, available in the UPEI Bookstore.

Part One

The Age of Sail: 1460--1860

1. Mercantilism: European National Policy

2. Feudalism and Capitalism in Europe

3. Feudalism and Capitalism in America

4. The Legacy of Feudalism in America

5. Mercantilism and settlement in America:
Newfoundland and the fisheries

6. Mercantilism and settlement in America: agriculture
and the fur trade in New France

7. The Legacy of the Age of Sail

Part Two

The Canal Era: 1750--1850

The Building of the Canals: Some Dates

8. Industrialization and Canals: Britain

9. Industrialization and Canals: Russia and U.S.A.

10. The Canal Era in the Canadian Maritimes

11. Quebec, from the Conquest to the Abolition of Feudal Tenure

12. Upper Canada from the Constitution Act to the
Reciprocity Treaty

13. The West Coast to Confederation

Part Three

The Railway Epoch

14. The First National Policy

15. The Second National Policy

16. National Monetary Policy under Laissez-faire

17. Canadian Commercial Policy under Laissez-faire

18. The Substance of Economic Development: 1870--1920

19. Disintegration of Institutions and Policy: 1870--1920

Part Four

Internal Combustion and the Electric Dynamo

20. Remaking National Policy: Russia and the United States, 1900--1940

21. Remaking National Policy: Canada, 1900-1929

22. The Third National Policy

23. Cold War and Continentalization:
U.S.A. and U.S.S.R, 1946--1970

24. The Canadian Quandary:
Regionalization and Continentalization

25. Telematics, Globalization,
and the End of National Policy

26. Globalization and Continentalization
at the End of the Twentieth Century

Epilogue [to 2012]

Reading List

Required Reading for Economics 221

Robin Neill
As the Twig is Bent: Globalization & Continentalization,
Canadian Economic Development: 1600-2000.
Available in the UPEI Bookstore.

Recommended Reading

[In no particular order.]
* Available on reserve in the Robertson Library

* Elvin, Mark,
THE PATTERN OF THE CHINESE PAST , Stanford U.P., Stanford, 1973.

Perez, Carlota,
TECHNICAL REVOLUTIONS AND FINANCIAL CAPITAL: the dynamics of
bubbles and golden ages, E. Elgar, North Hampton MA, 2003.

Lipsey, R.G., Carlaw, J.J., Bekar, C.T,
ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATIONS, Oxford University Press, New York, 2005.

Mokyr, Joel, THE LEVER OF RICHES, Oxford University Press, New York, 1990.

Pomeranz, Kenneth, THE GREAT DIVERGENCE: CHINA, EUROPE AND THE
MODERN WORLD, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2000.

* Norrie, Owram, and Emery
A HISTORY OF THE CANADIAN ECONOMY, Thomson Nelson, Toronto,
Fourth Edition, 2008.

* McCalla, D., and Huberman, M.,
PERSPECTIVES ON CANADIAN ECONOMIC HISTORY, Copp Clark Longman, Toronto,
Revised Edition, 1994.

* Easterbrook, W.T. and Aitken, H.G.J.,
CANADIAN ECONOMIC HISTORY, Macmillan, Toronto, 1965.

Easterbrook, W.T., NORTH AMERICAN PATTERNS OF GROWTH, University of Toronto Press,
Toronto, 1990.

* Easterbrook, W.T. and Watkins, M.H.,
APPROACHES TO CANADIAN ECONOMIC HISTORY, Carleton University Press
Ottawa, 1964.

Watkins, M.H.,
MADNESS AND RUIN: POLITICAL ECONOMY IN THE NEOCONSERVATIVE AGE,
Between the Lines, Toronto, 1992.

Watkins, M.H. and Grant, H.,
CANADIAN ECONOMIC HISTORY, Carleton University Press, Ottawa,1994.

* Innis, H.A.,
ESSAYS IN CANADIAN ECONOMIC HISTORY, University of Toronto Press
Toronto, 1956.

* Marr, W.L. and Paterson, D.G.,
CANADA: AN ECONOMIC HISTORY, Macmillan, Toronto, 1980.

J. Hughes and Cain, L.P.
AMERICAN ECONOMIC HISTORY, Fourth Edition, Harper Collins,
New York,1994.

Birnie, A.,
AN ECONOMIC HISTORY OF EUROPE, Methuan, London, 1962.

Mokyr, J.,
THE BRITISH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, Westview Press, Boulder, Co.
1995.

Cameron, Rondo,
A CONCISE ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE WORLD, Oxford University Press, New York, 1989.