At the start of his career Innis set out to explain the significance of price rigidities in the cultural, social, and political institutions of new countries; by the end of his intellectual journey he had become one of the most influential critics of modernity. The essays in this collection...

The formation of the North American trade bloc represents a dramatically different variant of trade liberalization from its Cold War predecessor. The latter reconciled the need to promote greater openness with Keynesian kinds of social welfare measures. By contrast, global free trade-for-all...