GPHY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Staples Thesis, World-Systems Theory, Periphery Countries

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GPHY 101
• Professor: Anne Godlewska

Document Summary

Three descriptive theories can be used to better understand canada"s relationship to its own resources and the global economy: staples theory, world systems theory and the. Writing in the 1930s and 40s harold innis described the characteristic development of a national economy based on resource extraction. His description of canada"s relationship with resource extraction and exportation became known as the staples thesis. He argued that canada"s economy had evolved through several stages of resource exploitation and that as canada was almost exclusively dependent on those resources, they had shaped the country profoundly. To furs (nb the canadian fur trade that thrived until the railroads and survived into wwii (arthur ray (the canadian fur trade in the industrial age; give us good measure; indians in the fur trade )) And if innis were alive today, (he died in 1952) he would point to energy which has developed as a very powerful staple since the 1970s.