Staples, markets, and cultural change : selected essays
This new edition of Harold Innis's essays, published on the occasion of his centenary, assembles his most significant and representative writing. Included are many of Innis's essays on cultural issues and economic development - subjects he explored throughout his life - that have not been readily accessible before.
Print Book, English, ©1995
Centenary ed View all formats and editions
McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal, ©1995
lix, 506 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780773512993, 9780773513020, 0773512993, 0773513027
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Celebrating Innis: The Man, the Legacy, and Our Future / Daniel Drache
1. The Importance of Staple Products in Canadian Development
2. The Political Implications of Unused Capacity in Frontier Economies
3. Decentralization and Democracy in the Atlantic Basin
4. The Economic Development of the Maritime Provinces, 1867-1921
5. The Penetrative Powers of the Price System on New World States
6. Liquidity Preference and the Specialization of Production in North America and the Pacific
7. Transportation as a Factor in Canadian Economic History
8. Unused Capacity as a Factor in Canadian Economic History
9. Commerce and Industry in Canadian Economic Development 1760-1935
10. The Place of Land in North American Federations
11. Organized Labour and Living Standards in Canadian Economic History
12. The Economics of Conservation
13. Economic Nationalism
14. The Canadian Economy and the Depression
15. Some Problems of Adjustment in Canada
16. "For the People": The Intellectual State of Canada
17. The Rowell-Sirois Report
18. Recent Trends in Canadian-American Relations
19. Great Britain, the United States, and Canada
20. Business and Government
21. On the Economic Significance of Cultural Factors
22. Industrialism and Cultural Values
23. The Bias of Communication
24. The Mechanization of Knowledge
25. A Plea for Time
26. The Concept of Monopoly and Civilization
27. The Problem of Space
28. The Role of the Social Scientist
29. The Passing of Political Economy
30. The "Common Man" and Internationalism: Myths in the Social Sciences
31. The Intellectual in History
32. The Church in Canada
33. Adult Education and Universities
34. Democracy and the Free City