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How Powerful Was the National Policy? The Lesson of the Cotton Mills

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  • Michael N.A. Hinton

    (Minerva’s Owl Consulting Economists Ltd
    Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis)

  • Thomas Barbiero

    (Ryerson University
    Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis)

  • Min Seong Kim

    (Ryerson University)

Abstract

Historians have claimed that Canadian manufacturing grew in the nineteenth century largely because of the National Policy tariff. . In the case of the cotton textile sector, our findings cast serious doubt on the long-standing idea that the National Policy was indispensable to the growth of Canadian manufacturing before WWI.

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  • Michael N.A. Hinton & Thomas Barbiero & Min Seong Kim, 2014. "How Powerful Was the National Policy? The Lesson of the Cotton Mills," Review of Economic Analysis, Digital Initiatives at the University of Waterloo Library, vol. 6(1), pages 53-67, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:ren:journl:v:6:y:2014:i:1:p:53-67
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    1. L. Di Matteo & Tom Barbiero, 2017. "Economic Growth and the Public Sector: A Comparison of Canada and Italy, 1870†2013," Working Papers 069, Ryerson University, Department of Economics.

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    Keywords

    National Policy; tariff effectiveness; cotton textile; economic growth;
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    JEL classification:

    • F11 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Neoclassical Models of Trade
    • F13 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations
    • F14 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Empirical Studies of Trade
    • N61 - Economic History - - Manufacturing and Construction - - - U.S.; Canada: Pre-1913
    • N71 - Economic History - - Economic History: Transport, International and Domestic Trade, Energy, and Other Services - - - U.S.; Canada: Pre-1913

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