Communication and Economic Growth

Cahiers de recherche from Universite de Montreal, Departement de sciences economiques

Abstract: Overs the past millennium, each of the three centuries of most rapid demographic growth in the West Coincided with the diffusion of a new communications technology. This paper examines the hypothesis of Harold Innis (1894-1952) that there is two-way feeback between such innovations and economic growth.

JEL-codes: O40 L96 B10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: Written 1996

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Related works:
Working Paper: Communication and Economic Growth (1996)
Journal Article: Communications and economic growth (1999)
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