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ECONOMIST

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harold Innis has received more than 307,331 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Harold Innis is the 232nd most popular economist (down from 217th in 2019), the 196th most popular biography from Canada (up from 199th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Canadian Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Harold Innis ranks 232 out of 315. Before him are George Shultz, Fritz Machlup, Colin Clark, Johann Karl Rodbertus, Étienne Laspeyres, and Mahbub ul Haq. After him are Alexander Gerschenkron, Eric Maskin, Hernando de Soto Polar, Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher, Eugen Varga, and Jules Dupuit.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Harold Innis ranks 133. Before him are Surya Sen, Maksim Purkayev, Eduard Wagner, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Aleksandr Khinchin, and Ivan Papanin. After him are Magda Julin, Olive Thomas, Tibor Déry, C. R. Swart, Jean Rostand, and Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay. Among people deceased in 1952, Harold Innis ranks 83. Before him are Carlo Sforza, Juan Yagüe, Max Dehn, Maurice De Waele, Franz John, and Antonia Maury. After him are Edward S. Curtis, Krystyna Skarbek, Mauno Pekkala, Alberto Savinio, Adolf Busch, and Josephine Tey.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Harold Innis ranks 196 out of 1,350. Before him are Alfred Aho (1941), Ian Hacking (1936), Gabrielle Roy (1909), Louis Nirenberg (1925), Barry Pepper (1970), and Phil Hartman (1948). After him are Alanis Morissette (1974), Paul Haggis (1953), Arthur Jeffrey Dempster (1886), Bobby Hull (1939), Jeff Wall (1946), and Allan Dwan (1885).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Canada

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

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