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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments: Robert E. Babe xiii
5. Abbreviations xxi
6. Robert Babe, Canadian Scholar 1
7. PART ONE. Media, Information, and Critique of Economics
8. Introduction to Part One 17
9. 1. The Place of Information in Economics 22
10. 2. Communication: Blind Spot of Western Economics 43
11. 3. Copyright and Culture 60
12. 4. ‘Life Is Information’: The Communication Thought of Graham Spry 66
13. PART TWO. Communications History and Policy
14. Introduction to Part Two 81
15. 5. Media Technology and the Great Transformation of Canadian Cultural Policy 91
16. 6. Control of Telephones: The Canadian Experience 119
17. 7. Convergence and Divergence: Telecommunications, Old and New 134
18. 8. An Information Revolution? 152
19. Appendix. Vertical Integration and Productivity: Canadian Telecommunications 164
20. PART THREE. Canadian Communication Thought
21. Introduction to Part Three 185
22. 9. Foundations of Canadian Communication Thought 193
23. 10. Innis, Saul, Suzuki 217
24. 11. Harold Innis and the Paradox of Press Freedom 227
25. 12. The Communication Thought of Herbert Marshall McLuhan 245
26. 13. Red Toryism: George Grant’s Communication Philosophy 286
27. PART FOUR. Cultural Ecology and the Political Economy of Knowledge
28. Introduction to Part Four 295
29. 14. Economics and Information: Toward a New (and More Sustainable) World View 303
30. 15. Innis, Environment, and New Media 314
31. 16. The Political Economy of Knowledge: Neglecting Political Economy in the Age of Fast Capitalism (as Before) 336
32. 17. Cultural Studies, Poststructuralism, Political Economy 360
33. 18. Political Economy of Economics 388
34. PART FIVE. Concluding Thoughts
35. 19. Political Language: The Political Economy of Knowledge 397
36. 20. Robert Babe, Personal Reflections 417
37. Influential Writings Selected by Robert E. Babe 421
38. Publications and Conference Papers by Robert E. Babe 427