Industrial Concentration: Fur trade, Canadian Banks and the Textile Industry, Pre-Confederation-1930

University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

Author: Faraaz Ali; [2008]

Keywords: Finance; Industrial Concentration; Canadian Economic History; Social and economic history; Ekonomisk och social historia; History and Archaeology;

Abstract: This article examines antecedent conditions present during the colonial period and how it influenced finance institutions in Canada. The analysis of the Canada provides a case in which to compare to the other cases, already examined by Prof. Steven H. Haber- USA, Mexico and Brazil. The Canadian case concurs with Haber's argument that countries that facilitate heavy constraints on credit contribute to industrial concentration.

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