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A New Theory Of Value;: The Canadian Economics Of H. A. Innis (canadian University Paperbacks, 120) by Robin (University Of Prince Edward Island, Canada) Neill is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.

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Continuing problems in the Canadian economy have been the occasion of a partisan debate between nationalists and continentalists, both of whom claim the staples thesis to be the premise of their proposed solutions. As one of the principal progenitors of that premise Harold Innis contributed much to the roots of this debate and its present flowering cannot be understood apart from what he had to say. This is an account of the Canadian problem as it was elaborated in the staples thesis of H.A. Innis. But it is more than that. In order to cope with the economics of a satellite country in the age of machine and post-machine industry, Innis found it necessary to fill in the empty boxes of neoclassical value theory and, at times, to make new ones when the standard theory provided insufficient room to contain the facts of the case. He went beyond price theory to come to grips with the unsolved problems of growth and to work out answers of his own. The result was a new kind of economics based, as was the economics of J.M. Keynes, on the assertion of a new ethical foundation. Unlike Keynes, Innis was concerned with the long run, for we can survive now only by understanding the coping with t

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Author

Robin (University Of Prince Edward Island, Canada) Neill

Publisher

University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division

Published

1972

Language

EN

ISBN

9780802018557

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Business, Economics, History

Updated

2026-03-25