A new theory of value: The Canadian economics of H.A. Innis

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...