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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Inhalt
Acknowledgments | xi |
PART ONE STAPLE TRADES THE RISE | 1 |
The Political Implications of Unused | 24 |
The Economic Development of | 49 |
The Penetrative Powers of the Price | 66 |
Liquidity Preference and | 88 |
Transportation as a Factor in Canadian | 123 |
Unused Capacity as a Factor in Canadian | 139 |
Industrialism and Cultural Values | 316 |
The Bias of Communication | 325 |
The Mechanization of Knowledge | 350 |
A Plea for Time | 356 |
The Concept of Monopoly and Civilization 384 | 384 |
The Problem of Space | 390 |
PART FIVE THE INTELLECTUAL AS CITIZEN | 427 |
The Role of the Social Scientist | 429 |
Commerce and Industry in Canadian | 155 |
Organized Labour and Living Standards | 178 |
The Economics of Conservation | 203 |
The Canadian Economy and | 225 |
The Intellectual State | 241 |
Recent Trends in CanadianAmerican | 262 |
Business and Government | 290 |
PART FOUR POLITICAL CULTURE THE BIAS OF COMMUNICATION AND ECONOMIC CHANGE | 295 |
On the Economic Significance of Cultural Factors | 297 |
The Passing of Political Economy | 438 |
Myths in the Social Sciences | 443 |
The Intellectual in History | 446 |
The Church in Canada | 459 |
Adult Education and Universities | 471 |
Democracy and the Free City | 482 |
487 | |
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Staples, Markets, and Cultural Change: Selected Essays Harold A. Innis,Daniel Drache Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1995 |
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