Staples and Beyond: Selected Writings of Mel Watkins

This collection brings together Watkins' most important scholarly articles. In Staples and Beyond Watkins addresses the "staple thesis" of Canadian economic and political development and, in particular, the effort to extend Harold Innis' work by giving more explicit consideration to class relatio...

Mel Watkins is professor emeritus, economics and political science, University of Toronto, and adjunct professor, Institute of political Economy, Carleton University. Hugh Grant is a professor, economics, University of Winnipeg. David A. Wolfe is a prof