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.

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

By Harold A. Innis
Edited by Robert E. Babe and Edward A. Comor