Harold A Innis

Political Economy in the Modern State

Herausgeber: Babe, Robert E; Comor, Edward A

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Produktbeschreibung

Political Economy in the Modern State is Harold Innis’s transitional and, in some respects, his most transformative book. Its main themes include the problem of power and peace, the ascent of specialization and mechanized forms of knowledge, and the crisis facing democracy and civilization.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9781487522926
• ISBN-10: 1487522924
• Artikelnr.: 49442205

Autorenporträt

Harold A. Innis was a professor of political economy at the University of Toronto and the author of seminal works on media and communication theory.

Inhaltsangabe

Editors’ Introduction
PREFACE
Editors’ Introduction to Chapter 1
1. THE NEWSPAPER IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Editors’ Introduction to Chapter 2
2. AN ECONOMIC APPROACH TO ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Editors’ Introduction to Chapter 3
3. THE PROBLEMS OF REHABILITATION
Editors’ Introduction to Chapter 4
4. A PLEA FOR THE UNIVERSITY TRADITION
Editors’ Introduction to Chapter 5
5. THE UNIVERSITY IN THE MODERN CRISIS
Editors’ Introduction to Chapter 6
6. ON THE ECONOMIC SIGNIFICANCE OF CULTURAL FACTORS
Editors’ Introduction to Chapter 7
7. POLITICAL ECONOMY IN THE MODERN STATE
Editors’ Introduction to Chapter 8
8. THE PENETRATIVE POWERS OF THE PRICE SYSTEM
Editors’ Introduction to Chapter 9
9. LIQUIDITY PREFERENCE AS A FACTOR IN INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT
Editors’ Introduction to Chapter 10
10. UNUSED CAPACITY AS A FACTOR IN CANADIAN ECONOMIC HISTORY
Editors’ Introduction to Chapter 11
11. THE POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF UNUSED CAPACITY
Editors’ Introduction to Chapter 12
12. IMPERFECT REGIONAL COMPETITION AND POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS ON THE NORTH
ATLANTIC SEABOARD
Editors’ Introduction to Chapter 13
13. DECENTRALIZATION AND DEMOCRACY
Editors’ Introduction to Chapter 14
14. TRANSPORTATION AND THE TARIFF
Editors’ Introduction to Chapter 15
15. REFLECTIONS ON RUSSIA
Index