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Joseph Howe (1804-1873) is well-known in Nova Scotian history for his contributions as a printer, journalist, advocate for freedom of the press and responsible government, and politician. Less well-known are Howe's extensive travel accounts, written during his "Rambles" throughout Nova Scotia, and published as newspaper articles between 1828 and 1831. Enthusiastically, romantically and intelligently commenting on people, places, and things, Howe's Rambles capture Nova Scotian landscapes and society at a unique moment in time – one of rapid change due to industrialization, population growth, and new technologies.

Joseph Schumpeter (1883 - 1950) was one of the foremost economic thinkers of the twentieth century. Today Schumpeter is most well-known for his idea of 'creative destruction'. This is the notion that a market economy is simultaneously creative and destructive and therein lies the process of renewal that is central to the endurance and also the unpopularity of capitalism. Schumpeter's work also contains one of the most important conservative critiques of mass democracy. Schumpeter argued that mass democracy had totalitarian tendencies and was likely to degenerate into the tyranny of the popular.