Part 1 Information and communication in mainstream economics: information industries and economic analysis - policy-makers beware; commodities as signs; the place of information in economics. Part 2 Interrelations between economics and communication studies: communication - blind-spot of western economics; on political economy; information, economics and ecosystem. Part 3 Information and communication in institutional and evolutionary economics: T.R. Malthus and the origins of communication in economics; the communication theory of Thorstein Veblen; the communication theory of Kenneth E. Boulding. Part 4 Policy applications: emergence and development of Canadian communications - dispelling the myths; telecommunications policy - real world of the Canadian information highway; "life is information" - Canadian communication and the legacy of Graham Spry.
