Staples, Markets, and Cultural Change: Selected EssaysAt the start of his career Innis set out to explain the significance of price rigidities in the cultural, social, and political institutions of new countries; by the end of his intellectual journey he had become one of the most influential critics of modernity. The essays in this collection address a variety of themes, including the rise of industrialism and the expansion of international markets, staples trades, critical factors in Canadian development, metropolitanism and nationality, the problems of adjustment, the political economy of communications, the economics of cultural change, and Innis's conception of the role of the intellectual as citizen. Innis succeeded as few others have in providing an astute and comprehensive account of the economic and social forces shaping modernity. His abiding interest in the contradictory and unintended consequences of markets in general - the dominant structure of modern economic activity - gave rise to the rich legacy of his prodigious output. |
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... American Federations / 166 11 Organized Labour and Living Standards in Canadian Economic History / 178 12 The Economics of Conservation / 203 PART THREE METROPOLITANISM , NATIONALITY , AND THE CRISIS OF INDUSTRIALISM 13 Economic ...
... American Federations / 166 11 Organized Labour and Living Standards in Canadian Economic History / 178 12 The Economics of Conservation / 203 PART THREE METROPOLITANISM , NATIONALITY , AND THE CRISIS OF INDUSTRIALISM 13 Economic ...
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... American Economic Association . Innis was the first and last non - American to be accorded this highest of honours.2 But it was his pioneering research on economic settlement , national development , and world markets from the sixteenth ...
... American Economic Association . Innis was the first and last non - American to be accorded this highest of honours.2 But it was his pioneering research on economic settlement , national development , and world markets from the sixteenth ...
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... America to the Pacific Coast , gave the aboriginal peoples bargain- ing power with the colonial authorities . Thus , the chain of depen- dency did not run in only one direction . While the North American natives proved to have an ...
... America to the Pacific Coast , gave the aboriginal peoples bargain- ing power with the colonial authorities . Thus , the chain of depen- dency did not run in only one direction . While the North American natives proved to have an ...
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... America and modern Canada was never left to the free sweep of forces de- termined either by the environment or by the ... American imperialism ” ( Innis 1956 , 404 ) . Markets and Cultural Change : Innis's Global Critique It was xliii ...
... America and modern Canada was never left to the free sweep of forces de- termined either by the environment or by the ... American imperialism ” ( Innis 1956 , 404 ) . Markets and Cultural Change : Innis's Global Critique It was xliii ...
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Contents
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STAPLE TRADES THE RISE OF INDUSTRIALISM AND THE ENLARGEMENT OF EMPIRE | 1 |
RESOURCES AND REGIONALISM THE ORIGINS OF MODERN CANADA | 121 |
METROPOLITANISM NATIONALITY AND THE CRISIS OF INDUSTRIALISM | 209 |
POLITICAL CULTURE THE BIAS OF COMMUNICATION AND ECONOMIC CHANGE | 295 |
THE INTELLECTUAL AS CITIZEN | 427 |
Index | 487 |
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