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Robert E. Babe
Focusing on the centrality of information/communication to economic and ecological processes, this work cuts at the philosophical/ideological root of this neo-conservative policy agenda.
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This book proposes that infusing mainline economics with more expansive and realistic conceptions of information/communication transforms static neoclassicism into evolutionary political economy. It results in modes of analysis that, when…
By comparing the scholarship of both Wilbur Schramm and Noam Chomsky with that of Harold Innis, and by making detailed use of Innis’s neglected writings, including particularly Political Economy in…
This book addresses the notorious split between the two fields of cultural studies and political economy. Robert E. Babe shows that political economy can be reconciled to certain aspects of…
Although there is a burgeoning interest among economists in “information economics’, much of the literature adopts a reductionist conceptualization of information, defining it exclusively as reduction in uncertainty, exploring the…
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Containing introductions and contributions by other prominent scholars, this volume situates Babe’s work within contemporary scholarship and underscores the extent to which he is one of Canada’s most prescient thinkers.
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Harold A. Innis
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…
