Robin Neill
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| Robin Neill | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1931 |
| Occupation | economic historian |
Robin F. Neill (1931 – ) is a Canadian economic historian teaching at the University of Prince Edward Island. Prior to his present appointment, he was a longstanding professor at Carleton University in Ottawa.
Over the past 40 years, Neill has written three books and over forty academic articles. His writings in the Journal of Canadian Studies have been extensive — with subjects including Adam Shortt, Harold Adams Innis, Social Credit, economic activity in Quebec, the state of economic history in the 1970s, and the Saskatchewan school of economic historiography. His work offers a right-wing analysis of Canadian economic history.
He established himself as a critic of H.A. Innis’ staple thesis, which explains Canadian economic development as a lateral, east-west conception of trade. Neill advocates a post-Innisian thesis, explaining the development as an expression of variegated regions (population density, cultural politics, geographic characteristics) and of their particular north-south relations with the United States.
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- Neill, Robin (1972). A New Theory of Value: The Canadian Economics of H.A. Innis. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-8020-1855-6.
- Neill, Robin (1991). A History of Canadian Economic Thought, Routledge History of Economic Thought Series. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-05412-5.
