¹ He compiled “A Bibliography of Thorstein Veblen,” published in Southwestern Political and Social Science Quarterly, vol. 10, 1929–30, 56–68. The article is more than a bibliography; it is a brief and thoughtful appreciation of Veblen's work, wherein a comparison is drawn between Veblen's position in the course of the industrial revolution and that of Adam Smith at its beginning. It is remarked of Veblen: “He has been the first to attempt a general stock-taking of general tendencies in a dynamic society saddled with machine industry, just as Adam Smith has been the first to present a general stock-taking before machine industry came in.”

² Some articles of this period were republished in Problems of Staple Production in Canada (Toronto, 1933).Google Scholar

³ Within this period he sat on two royal commissions: the Manitoba Royal Commission on Adult Education (1946) and the Royal Commission on Transportation (1948–51). The last of these inevitably involved him in examining some of the central problems of the Canadian economy as it had been affected by the Second World War and recent technical change, especially in transportation.

⁴ Political Economy in the Modern State, xvii.

⁵ The Bias of Communication, 140.

⁶ Political Economy in the Modem State, 75.