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Government and Business in Canada: An Interpretation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

Hugh G. J. Aitken
Hugh G. J. Aitken
Affiliation:
Professor of Economics, University of California, Riverside
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Extract

Professor Aitken reveals a distinctive pattern of government-business relationships against the background of Canada's defensive economic development and its government's active role in the maintenance of national economic unity.

Type
Research Article
Information
Business History Review , Volume 38 , Issue 1 , Spring 1964 , pp. 4 - 21
Copyright
Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1964

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References

1 I use the word “American” here as the adjective corresponding to “United States.” This may offend some Canadian readers, who are fully entitled to call themselves Americans if they wish, but I know of no convenient alternative.

2 See North, Douglass C., The Economic Growth of the United States, 1790–1860 (Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1961)Google Scholar; Caves, R. E. and Holton, R. H., The Canadian Economy: Prospects and Retrospect (Cambridge, Mass., 1959)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 See the author's “Defensive Expansionism: The State and Economic Growth in Canada,” Aitken, (ed.). The State and Economic Growth (New York, 1959), pp. 79–114Google Scholar.

4 Gerschenkron, Alexander, Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective (Cambridge, Mass., 1962)Google Scholar.

5 Galbraith, John S., The Hudson's Bay Company as an Imperial Factor, 1821–1869 (Berkeley, 1957)Google Scholar.

6 For a somewhat fuller discussion, see the author's “The Changing Structure of the Canadian Economy,” in Aitken, et al. , The American Economic Impact on Canada (Durham, 1959), pp. 3–35Google Scholar.

7 See the author's “The Midwestern Case: Canadian Gas and the Federal Power Commission,” Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science, vol. XXV (May, 1959), pp. 129–43Google Scholar.

8 For some comments on this issue, see the author's American Capital and Canadian Resources (Cambridge, Mass., 1961)Google Scholar.