Business History: Canada in the Global Community
- ISBN-10
- 1553220064
- ISBN-13
- 9781553220060
- Series
- Business History
- Pages
- 597
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- Captus Press
- Author
- John Dwyer
Description
It covers Canadian business history from early Native-European contact up to and including globalization, and elucidates the thought of intellectuals such as Adam Smith, Thomas Ricardo, and John Maynard Keynes. Major developments in the evolution of business practice and education are described in detail including: the pre-market society, mercantilism, the rise of the market, utilitarianism, managerial capitalism, the Great Depression, the arsenal economy, the mixed economy, and the "Japanese Miracle." The book's attempt to address the issues and theories most relevant to business development in Canada-the staples theory, the evolution of the fur trade, railway construction, the grain and branch plant economies, the role of the Ottawa mandarins, and the rise of the regions.
