ST. FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY
ECONOMICS 342
THE MARITIME ECONOMY

SYLLABUS, 2004

MARKS BY SHORT ID: updated with essay marks

STUDY GUIDE TO FINAL, FALL 2004

Midterm:  October 25th   Final Examination: December 16th

Topic statement: Oct. 14;  Annotated Bibliography: Nov. 4th; Outline: Nov. 11th

Essay: Final draft Nov. 18th  

Charts on Maritime economic performance. Should be close, but may not be identical to the charts  distributed in class.

 

Bradley Bowden & Andrew Molloy, ‘Local Coal Industries in a Global Market: Change & Transitions in the Cape Breton & Queensland Coal Fields’, Web File

 

Coulombe, Serge and Kathleen M. Day. “Economic Growth and Regional Income Disparities in Canada and the Northern United States”. pp. 155-159, 167-172. 

  http://economics.ca/cgi/jab?journal=cpp&view=v25n2/CPPv25n2p155.pdf

A. C. Parks, ‘The Atlantic Provinces of Canada’, The Journal of Industrial Economics, vo.. 13, supplement: Papers on Regional Development, (1965), 76-87.

Anthony Myatt, David Murrell and William Milne, ‘Atlantic Canada: Performance and Prospects’ Canadian Business Economics, Spring 1995, pp. 29-41.  http://www.cabe.ca/cbe/vol3_3/33-myatt.pdf

Data on regional disparities: Part 1

Data on regional disparities: Part 2

Manufacturing in Antigonish County, 1870

Ideas for essays

Study guide for mid-term, Fall 2004

LECTURE NOTES

The livelihood model

More livelihood model

The staples model

Comparison of incomes

Present value (not req. 2004)