{{Short description|Canadian economic historian}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Robin Foliet Neill | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image = <!--(filename only, i.e. without "File:" prefix)--> | imagesize = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = 1931 | birth_place = Thunder Bay, Ontario | death_date = 29 June 2014 | death_place = Rocky Point, Prince Edward Island | death_cause = | resting_place = Prince Edward Island | resting_place_coordinates = <!--{{coord|LAT|LONG|type:landmark|display=inline,title}}--> | other_names = | citizenship = | fields = Economic historian | workplaces = Carleton University <br> University of Prince Edward Island | patrons = | alma_mater = University of Toronto | thesis_title = <!--(or | thesis1_title = and | thesis2_title = )--> | thesis_url = <!--(or | thesis1_url = and | thesis2_url = )--> | thesis_year = <!--(or | thesis1_year = and | thesis2_year = )--> | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | spouse = Sharon | partner = <!--(or | partners = )--> | children = Natalie | signature = <!--(filename only)--> | signature_alt = | website = <!--{{URL|www.example.com}}--> | footnotes = }} '''Robin F. Neill''' (1931–2014) was a Canadian economic historian who was a longstanding professor at Carleton University in Ottawa and then, latterly, at the University of Prince Edward Island.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/ottawacitizen/obituary.aspx?pid=171579834 |title=Robin Neill's Obituary by Ottawa Citizen |publisher=Legacy.com |date= |accessdate=2014-07-18}}</ref>

Born in 1931 in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Robin Neill held a B.A. and M.A. in political economy from the University of Toronto and a PhD in economics from Duke. His academic appointments included the University of Saskatchewan, 1960–69; University of Prince Edward Island, 1970–72; Carleton University, 1972–95 (retired as full professor), University of Prince Edward Island and Carleton University (-2013), adjunct professor, 1995–1998. He was special advisor to the Fisheries Council of Canada and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, from 1984 to 1985.<ref name="AIMS_nd">{{cite web|title=Profile|url=http://www.aims.ca/en/home/aboutus/boardofresearchadvisors/robinfneillchairman.aspx|publisher=Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS)|location=Halifax, Nova Scotia|accessdate=1 February 2014}}</ref> He was on the board of governors of the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council from 1997 to 2003 and served as vice-president from 1998 to 2000.<ref name="CV" /> He was on the Atlantic Institute of Market Studies, research advisory board since 1998 and served as chairman of the RAB since 2001.<ref name="AIMS_nd" /><ref name="CV">{{cite web|url=http://people.upei.ca/rneill/ |title=Professor Robin Neill's CV |location=Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island |work=University of Prince Edward Island |date=nd |accessdate= 14 July 2014 }}</ref>

Over his career, Neill wrote three books and over forty academic articles. His writings in the ''Journal of Canadian Studies'' were extensive &mdash; 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 Harold Adams Innis’ staple thesis,<ref name="Neill 1991">{{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=0-415-05412-5 | chapter=The Staple Thesis | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/historyofcanadia0000neil }}</ref> which explains Canadian economic development as a lateral, east–west conception of trade. Neill advocated 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.

==Publications== *{{cite book | last=Neill |first=Robin | title=A New Theory of Value: The Canadian Economics of H.A. Innis | url=https://archive.org/details/newtheoryofvalue0000neil | url-access=registration | location=Toronto | publisher= University of Toronto Press | year=1972 | isbn=0-8020-1855-6}} *{{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=0-415-05412-5 | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/historyofcanadia0000neil }}

=== Book chapters ===

* {{citation |url=http://www.islandscholar.ca/fedora/repository/ir:10261 |year=2015 |chapter=Canada |editor-first=V. |editor-last=Barnett | last=Neill |first=Robin |title=Routledge handbook of the history of global economic thought |pages=130–139 |location=New York |publisher=Routledge |accessdate=10 October 2014}}

== Selected articles == * {{citation |url=http://www.islandscholar.ca/fedora/repository/ir:7591 |year=2013 | last=Neill |first=Robin |title=As the twig is bent, globalization & continentalization: Canadian economic development, 1600–2000 |accessdate=10 October 2014|location=Ronkonkoma, N.Y. |publisher= Linus Learning}} * {{citation |url=http://www.islandscholar.ca/fedora/repository/ir:7603 |year=2011 |series=ACEA Papers and Proceedings | last=Neill |first=Robin |title=Ontario and Canada in the Great Moderation and beyond |accessdate=10 October 2014|publisher=Atlantic Canada Economics Association (ACEA)|location=Wolfville, Nova Scotia}} * {{citation |url=http://www.islandscholar.ca/fedora/repository/ir:7607 |year=2010 |series=ACEA Papers | last=Neill |first=Robin |title=Plus ca change:: the Prairie provinces in the age of globalization |accessdate=10 October 2014|publisher=Atlantic Canada Economics Association (ACEA) |location=Wolfville, Nova Scotia}} * {{cite web| last=Neill |first=Robin F. | title=Using a wrench as a hammer: Why EI is the wrong tool to respond to loss of income in an economic downturn |url=http://www.aims.ca/site/media/aims/EmploymentInsurance.pdf |accessdate=14 July 2014 |date=May 2009}}

== References == {{Reflist}}

==External links== * [http://robinneill.wordpress.com/2014/07/17/in-loving-memory-1931-2014/ Robin Neill Memorial Blog] * {{cite web|url=http://people.upei.ca/rneill/ |title=Professor Robin Neill's Home Page |location=Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island |work=University of Prince Edward Island |date=nd |publisher=Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS), Halifax, Nova Scotia |accessdate= 14 July 2014 }}

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