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Article: Understanding Canada: building on the new Canadian political economy.
- Article from:
- Canadian Journal of Sociology
- Article date:
- September 22, 1998
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Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997, 408 pp.
Is the "new" Canadian political economy still alive and kicking? Has it been eclipsed by all the "posts": post-modernism, post-Marxism etc? Is Canadian Political Economy still relevant to understanding the world remade by the transnationals and banks in their neo-liberal globalisation project? Is anyone still working in the not-so-"new" Canadian Political Economy?
The answer to the last question is yes. Canadian Political Economy may have lost its lustre as a leading intellectual tradition, but Understanding Canada, edited by Wallace Clement, shows that many of its practitioners are grappling with ...