GEOG 361 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Corporatization, Comparative Advantage, Technological Change
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Lo(cid:272)al he(cid:396)o: ha(cid:396)old i(cid:374)(cid:374)is" ca(cid:374)adia(cid:374) theo(cid:396)y of taples. Innis and economic geography: not impressed by economic geography. Innis: staples man: goes to department of political economy. Later called the department of economics: suggests that development of this nation. Series of unprocessed, semi-processed: theorizing history of canada through staples: Native canadian view unstained, unchanged by intellectual bias of the empire. Staples theory: need to begin with the export to metropolitan power. The nethelands: development of canada = results of the export of staples (raw/semi-processed natural resources) Optimistic: staples production through free market produces backward and forward linkages that produce metropolitan industrialization: primary sector. Backward linkages: industrial goods that the sector requires. Act of production = derived demand for industrial goods. Backward linkages provide growth to the industries that provided these. Forward linkages: processing the goods into other items. Pessi(cid:373)isti(cid:272): taples p(cid:396)odu(cid:272)tio(cid:374) (cid:396)esults i(cid:374) (cid:862)staples t(cid:396)ap(cid:863) that p(cid:396)odu(cid:272)es hinterlands dependency: never becomes a fully fleged industrial power, (cid:862) taples t(cid:396)ap(cid:863)
