Books by Harold Adams Innis

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Mentions on MR
The bias of communication
Harold Innis, an underappreciated economist, on commodity-driven growth (2011-07-13)

This Canadian economist (1894-1952) deserves an installment in the “underappreciated economists” series.  In addition to his seminal work on the economics of media and communications (better and earlier than McLuhan), he has some excellent pieces on the fur trade in Canadian economic history , and they are more contemporary than at first meets the eye.  Innis’s editor, Daniel Drache, sums up the main point:

Staples, markets, and cultural change
Harold Innis, an underappreciated economist, on commodity-driven growth (2011-07-13)

This Canadian economist (1894-1952) deserves an installment in the “underappreciated economists” series.  In addition to his seminal work on the economics of media and communications (better and earlier than McLuhan), he has some excellent pieces on the fur trade in Canadian economic history , and they are more contemporary than at first meets the eye.  Innis’s editor, Daniel Drache, sums up the main point: