Staples, markets, and cultural change

Selected essays

Bibliographic Data

ID19970837
AuthorsHarold A Innis
EditorsDaniel Drache
Year1995
Pages576
Publication date1995-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueStaples, Markets, and Cultural Change (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherMcGill-Queen's University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1515/9780773565364
OpenAlexW383935908
Open LibraryOL34450086M
ISBN9780773565364
LanguageEN
Citations received44

At 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

Economics · Economy · Modernity · Nationality · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Technological change · Unintended consequences · Economic Theory and Institutions · Law · Political Economy and Marxism · canada · Economic conditions · Social conditions

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