TY - JOUR
T1 - Prairie Capitalism revisited
T2 - Canada, bitumen, and the resource colony question
AU - Kellogg, Paul
PY - 2015/9/1
Y1 - 2015/9/1
N2 - The 1979 classic Prairie Capitalism controversially asserted, "we find no confirmation of the thesis that provinces, heavily dependent on the exploitation and sale of staples, are thereby placed in a permanent position of political dependency vis à vis external capital" (Richards and Pratt 1979, 8). Developments in the years since have confirmed the book's analysis, and this has clear implications both for our understanding of the trajectory of Canadian capitalism, and for our assessment of the core tenets of Canadian political economy. Further, an appreciation of the contemporary utility of this aspect of the analysis in Prairie Capitalism is a necessary corrective to the contemporary "resource colony" discourse associated with Canada's bitumen sands industry.
AB - The 1979 classic Prairie Capitalism controversially asserted, "we find no confirmation of the thesis that provinces, heavily dependent on the exploitation and sale of staples, are thereby placed in a permanent position of political dependency vis à vis external capital" (Richards and Pratt 1979, 8). Developments in the years since have confirmed the book's analysis, and this has clear implications both for our understanding of the trajectory of Canadian capitalism, and for our assessment of the core tenets of Canadian political economy. Further, an appreciation of the contemporary utility of this aspect of the analysis in Prairie Capitalism is a necessary corrective to the contemporary "resource colony" discourse associated with Canada's bitumen sands industry.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84978795520&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3138/jcs.49.3.222
DO - 10.3138/jcs.49.3.222
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84978795520
SN - 0021-9495
VL - 49
SP - 222
EP - 255
JO - Journal of Canadian Studies
JF - Journal of Canadian Studies
IS - 3
ER -