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Harold Innis

1894 - 1952

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Harold Adams Innis (November 5, 1894 – November 8, 1952) was a Canadian professor of political economy at the University of Toronto and the author of seminal works on media, communication theory, and Canadian economic history. He helped develop the staples thesis, which holds that Canada's culture, political history, and economy have been decisively influenced by the exploitation and export of a series of "staples" such as fur, fish, lumber, wheat, mined metals, and coal. The staple thesis dominated economic history in Canada from the 1930s to 1960s, and continues to be a fundamental part of the Canadian political economic tradition. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harold Innis has received more than 321,702 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Harold Innis is the 231st most popular economist (down from 230th in 2019), the 198th most popular biography from Canada (down from 196th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Canadian Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Harold Innis ranks 231 out of 414. Before him are David D. Friedman, Jules Dupuit, Paul Milgrom, Thomas Sowell, Albert O. Hirschman, and Leopold von Wiese. After him are Fritz Machlup, Philip H. Dybvig, Ellen Swallow Richards, Eugen Slutsky, Johann Karl Rodbertus, and Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Harold Innis ranks 134. Before him are Yury Tynyanov, Mae Marsh, Mikheil Chiaureli, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Sofoklis Venizelos, and Carlos Luz. After him are Ecaterina Teodoroiu, Vilmos Aba-Novák, Turar Ryskulov, Georges Carpentier, Hermann Muhs, and Paul Dessau. Among people deceased in 1952, Harold Innis ranks 91. Before him are Takenoshin Nakai, Vladimir Albitsky, Nikos Beloyannis, Constant Permeke, Arturo Rawson, and Mariano Azuela. After him are Franz John, Antonia Maury, Alberto Savinio, Edward S. Curtis, Princess Louise Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, and Krystyna Skarbek.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Harold Innis ranks 198 out of 1,622. Before him are Jean-Paul Riopelle (1923), Norman L. Bowen (1887), Louis Jolliet (1645), Oliver Platt (1960), René Lévesque (1922), and Cindy Breakspeare (1954). After him are Tommy Chong (1938), Peter North (1957), Jean Béliveau (1931), Maud Menten (1879), Chris Benoit (1967), and Henry Clinton (1730).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Canada

Among economists born in Canada, Harold Innis ranks 6. Before him are Robert Mundell (1932), Henry Mintzberg (1939), John Kenneth Galbraith (1908), William Vickrey (1914), and Myron Scholes (1941). After him are David Card (1956), Michel Chossudovsky (1946), and Jacob Viner (1892).

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