Open AccessHow Powerful Was the National Policy? The Lesson of the Cotton Mills
Author(s) -
Michael Hinton,
Thomas Barbiero,
Min Seong Kim
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
review of economic analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1973-3909
DOI - 10.15353/rea.v6i1.1412
Subject(s) - tariff , textile , manufacturing sector , industrial policy , national policy , economics , economic history , economy , international trade , history , international economics , archaeology
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.