Silent surrender : the multinational corporation in Canada / / Kari Levitt ; new introduction by the author ; new foreword by Mel Watkins

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910814121203321
• Autore: Levitt Kari
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2002
• ISBN: 1-282-86017-8; 9786612860171; 0-7735-6987-1
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: xlvii, 193 p
• Collana: Carleton library series ; ; 196
• Disciplina: 332.67/373071
• Soggetti: Corporations, American - Canada; Corporations, Foreign - Canada; Sociétés américaines - Canada; Sociétés étrangères - Canada
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: First ed. published: Toronto : Macmillan of Canada, 1970.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Foreword to the Carleton Library Series Edition -- Foreword to the First Edition -- Introduction to the Carleton Library Series Edition -- Introduction to the First Edition -- The Recolonization of Canada -- The Old Mercantilism and the New -- The Rise of the Nation State -- Regression to Dependence -- Who Decides? -- Metropolis and Hinterland -- The Harvest of Lengthening Dependence -- Appendix -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: First published in 1970, Silent Surrender helped educate a generation of students about Canadian political economy. Kari Levitt details the historical background of foreign investments in Canada, their acceleration since World War II, and the nature of intrusions by multinational corporations into a sovereign state. Silent Surrender was prophetic in predicting that the ultimate consequence of relinquishing control of the Canadian economy to United States business interests would be political disintegration through the balkanization of the country and its eventual piecemeal absorption into the American imperial system. Republished with a new preface by noted scholar Mel Watkins and a postscript by the author, Silent Surrender's basic ; argument and underlying economic analysis remain remarkably fresh, particularly the question of whether cultural integration into continental American life has proceeded to a point where Canada is no longer a meaningful national community.