Escape from the Staple Trap: Canadian Political Economy after Left Nationalism by Paul KelloggEscape from the Staple Trap: Canadian Political Economy after Left Nationalism. Paul Kellogg. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. Pp. xxiv + 275, $70.00 cloth, $32.95 paper

2016 ◽  
Vol 97 (4) ◽  
pp. 594-596
Author(s):  
Matthew Evenden
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
University Of Toronto

Gendered States: Women, Unemployment Insurance, and the Political Economy of the Welfare State in Canada, 1945–1997

2004 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 747-748
Author(s):  
Candace Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
The Political ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Labour Requirement ◽  
Productive Labour ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Welfare State

Gendered States: Women, Unemployment Insurance, and the Political Economy of the Welfare State in Canada, 1945–1997, Ann Porter, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003, pp. 355It is amazing that Canadian society has been consistently bewildered as to the social, political and economic placement of women. In her new book, Ann Porter explains that the labour requirement that enabled women's participation in the workforce during the Second World War created a post-war environment that was inequitable, illogical, gendered, and “regulating.” Thus, progressive measures were to produce regressive results, as they were taken for the sake of nationalism and not gender equality. Porter documents the change in Unemployment Insurance (UI) policy from limited coverage for certain groups of male workers that could not engage in productive labour to “site of contestation over women's entitlement to state benefits” (66).

Mill to Marshall: The Conversion of the Economists

1941 ◽  
Vol 1 (S1) ◽  
pp. 17-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. W. Bladen
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Economic History ◽  
American Continent ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Real Change ◽  
The Status ◽  
Theory Of Value ◽  
In Parenthesis ◽  
The University ◽  
Frequent Reference

In this paper I intend to confine myself to one aspect of the manysided changes which came over English political economy between the publication of John Stuart Mill's Principles of Political Economy (1848) and of Alfred Marshall's Principles of Economics (1890). During this period great theoretical advances were made by W. S. Jevons and Alfred Marshall, advances which were paralleled in Lausanne and Vienna, and pushed further on the American continent by Professors J. B. Clark and Irving Fisher. I shall not attempt to summarize these contributions to pure theory, nor to estimate how wide was the gulf between the theory of Mill and the theory of Marshall (but in parenthesis I cannot refrain from suggesting that the real change in the theory of value was relatively small, while the change in the theory of distribution which derived from it was revolutionary). It is more appropriate at this first annual meeting of the Economic History Association to discuss the change in the status of economic theory in the corpus of economics as a result, mainly, of the influence of the historical school. Emphasis will be placed on the terms of peace rather than on the war of the methods, for it is my purpose to emphasize the possibilities of cooperation rather than to revive old antagonisms. I want to discuss the influence of some economic historians on economics. I shall make frequent reference to William Ashley, first professor of political economy in the University of Toronto and first professor of economic history in Harvard University and, I think, on the American continent. If I give him undue prominence this can surely be forgiven a Toronto man on this occasion.

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