Editing Staples thesis (section)

==Influence and criticism==
[[Mel Watkins]] revived the theory during the 1960s and 1970s through his work on resource capitalism and [[Economic history of Canada|Canadian political economy]].<ref>See for example, Mel Watkins (1967) "A Staples Theory of Economic Growth," In Easterbrook and Watkins (Eds.), ''Approaches to Canadian Economic History. ''Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.</ref> While the staples thesis originally described the evolution of the Canadian state, it has since been used to study the economies of many nations that are dependent upon [[resource extraction]] and [[primary sector of the economy|primary industries]].

The staples thesis states that export of raw materials can sustain economic growth, while its critics argue that reliance on commodity export should not delay the development of basic [[manufacturing]] and provision of services. Among his strongest critics was [[Robin Neill]] who advocated a thesis explaining the economic development of Canada as an expression of variegated regions (population density, cultural politics, geographic characteristics) and of their particular north-south relationships with the [[United States]].<ref>{{cite book | last=Neill | first=Robin | title=A History of Canadian Economic Thought | series=Routledge History of Economic Thought Series | location=London | publisher=Routledge | year=1991 | isbn=978-0-415-05412-6 | chapter=The Staple Thesis | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/historyofcanadia0000neil|doi=10.4324/9780203167953
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Historians continue to use elements of the Innis core-periphery model, applying it for example to British Columbia. That province's economic structure exemplifies the core-periphery structure of intra-regional relationships in the following manner: the core is metropolitan Vancouver, with its concentration of corporate management and transportation functions and manufacturing growth; Vancouver dominates an underdeveloped periphery that depends on production and export of staple commodities.<ref>Thomas A. Hutton, "The Innisian core-periphery revisited: Vancouver's changing relationships with British Columbia's staple economy." ''BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly'' 113 (1997): 69-100. [http://new-hfjc.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bcstudies/article/download/1690/1737 online]</ref>