The history of Canadian business, 1867-1914

R.T. Naylor traces the insidious interplay of big business and big government in Canada in the period between Confederation and World War I, presenting corruption as the norm rather than an abberation. He tells the often sordid story of the emergence and development of corporate capitalism in Canada during the country's formative years, exposing an epidemic of white-collar crime among the country's elite financial institutions and locating the origins of the modern corporate-welfare state in tax concessions and subsidies. A controversial study that went against the prevailing views of its time, some lauded its publication as an intellectual breakthrough, while others condemned it as a political rant. Contents Abbreviations Tables Foreword to the Carleton Library Preface to the Carleton Library Introduction to the Carleton Library Volume One: The Banks and Finance Capital 1 Introduction: Canadian Mercantilism, 1867-1914 2 Revenue, Protection, and the Politics of International Finance 3 The Evolution of the Chartered Banking System 4 Chartered Bank Failures 5 The Rise and Fall of the Private Banking System 6 Financial Institutions and the Accumulation of Capital 7 Canada and the International Flow of Finance Capital 8 High Finance and the Canadian Railways Errata Volume Two: Industrial Development 9 Staple Production and the Canadian Railway 10 Patents, Foreign Technology, and Industrial Development 11 Commercial Policy and Direct Investment 12 Federalism and the Rise of the Corporate Welfare 13 The Bonusing System and Secondary Industry 14 The Rise of Big Business 15 Reciprocity 16 Canadian Commercial and Financial Expansion Abroad 17 Conclusion: The Lessons of Development 18 Epilogue: Aftermath of the National Policy Glossary of Financial Terminology Bibliography Appendices: Foreword to the 1975 Edition Preface to the 1975 Edition Acknowledgements Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z Errata Traces the insidious interplay of big business and big government in Canada in the period between Confederation and World War I, presenting corruption as the norm rather than an abberation. This title tells the story of the emergence and development of corporate capitalism in Canada during the country's formative years. An unprecedented work in Canadian historiography, The History of Canadian Business, 1867-1914 has been chosen by the Social Sciences Federation of Canada as one of the twenty most outstanding works in the field in the last half of the twentieth century.