Political Economy in the Modern State / / Harold Innis; ed. by Robert Babe, Edward Comor.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Innis, Harold,
• MitwirkendeR: Babe, Robert E.,; Comor, Edward A.,; Innis, Harold A.,
• HerausgeberIn: Babe, Robert,; Comor, Edward,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (432 p.)

Political Economy in the Modern State is Harold Innis’s transitional and, in some respects, his most transformative book. Completed in 1946, it is a collection of fifteen chapters plus a remarkable Preface selected and crafted to address four main themes: the problem of power and peace in the post-W...

Table of Contents

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