The 1965 Canada-United States Automotive Trade agreement fundamentally reshaped relations between the automotive business and the state in both countries and represented a significant step toward the creation of an integrated North American economy. Breaking from previous conceptions of the agreement as solely a product of intergovernmental negotiation, Dimitry Anastakis's Auto Pact argues that the 'big three' auto companies played a pivotal role - and benefited immensely - in the creation and implementation of this new automotive regime. With the border effectively erased by the...
The 1965 Canada-United States Automotive Trade agreement fundamentally reshaped relations between the automotive business and the state in both cou...
For those who did not live through the experience of the Sixties, it is often difficult to comprehend this tumultuous period. Four decades after Canada's own Expo 67 "summer of love", this book explores issues from dope, de Gaulle, and driver education, to Trudeau, Vietnam, and Africville, thought the colourful kaleidoscope of the Sixties.
For those who did not live through the experience of the Sixties, it is often difficult to comprehend this tumultuous period. Four decades after Canad...
Framing Canadian Federalism assembles an impressive range of scholars to consider many important issues that relate to federalism and the history of Canada's legal, political, and social evolution. Covering themes that include the Supreme Court of Canada, changing policies towards human rights, First Nations, as well as the legendary battles between Mitchell Hepburn and W.L. Mackenzie King, this collection illustrates the central role that federalism continues to play in the Canadian polity.
Editors Dimitry Anastakis and P.E. Bryden and the volume's contributors, demonstrate...
Framing Canadian Federalism assembles an impressive range of scholars to consider many important issues that relate to federalism and the hi...
Framing Canadian Federalism assembles an impressive range of scholars to consider many important issues that relate to federalism and the history of Canada's legal, political, and social evolution. Covering themes that include the Supreme Court of Canada, changing policies towards human rights, First Nations, as well as the legendary battles between Mitchell Hepburn and W.L. Mackenzie King, this collection illustrates the central role that federalism continues to play in the Canadian polity.
Editors Dimitry Anastakis and P.E. Bryden and the volume's contributors, demonstrate...
Framing Canadian Federalism assembles an impressive range of scholars to consider many important issues that relate to federalism and the hi...
Autonomous State provides the first detailed examination of the Canadian auto industry, the country's most important economic sector, in the post-war period. In this engrossing book, Dimitry Anastakis chronicles the industry's evolution from the 1973 OPEC embargo to the 1989 Canada-US Free Trade Agreement and looks at its effects on public policy, diplomacy, business enterprise, workers, consumers, and firms.
Using an immense array of archival sources, and interviews with some of the key actors in the events, Anastakis examines a fascinating array of topics in recent auto...
Autonomous State provides the first detailed examination of the Canadian auto industry, the country's most important economic sector, in t...
Autonomous State provides the first detailed examination of the Canadian auto industry, the country's most important economic sector, in the post-war period. In this engrossing book, Dimitry Anastakis chronicles the industry's evolution from the 1973 OPEC embargo to the 1989 Canada-US Free Trade Agreement and looks at its effects on public policy, diplomacy, business enterprise, workers, consumers, and firms.
Using an immense array of archival sources, and interviews with some of the key actors in the events, Anastakis examines a fascinating array of topics in recent auto...
Autonomous State provides the first detailed examination of the Canadian auto industry, the country's most important economic sector, in t...
Today's globalization debates pit neoliberals, who favour even deeper integration into the global economy, against neo-mercantilists, who call for a relatively selective approach to globalization and the return to more interventionist industrial policies. Both sides claim to have the facts on their side.
Inspired by the work of economists Ha-Joon Chang and Dani Rodrik, editors Andrew Smith and Dimitry Anastakis bring together essays from both historians and economists in this collection to test claims that wealth comes from either protectionism or free trade.
With empirical...
Today's globalization debates pit neoliberals, who favour even deeper integration into the global economy, against neo-mercantilists, who call for ...