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The climate/energy transition has deep implications for resource-based economies like Canada. Our speakers and invited audience were drawn from the senior ranks of the university, public policy and corporate worlds – and all engaged in various dimensions of the conversation. How are we to negotiate this massive transformation of energy regime, keeping in mind not only sustainability, but also material prosperity and social impact?
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The founding directors of the Long Run Institute are honoured to welcome Dr. Judy Z. Stephenson to the Board of Directors.
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The paperback version of William Quinn and John Turner’s book Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles is released this week.
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New institute launched to connect decision-makers to historical context
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The LRI is delighted to welcome John A. Gent, PhD, to its Board of Governors. Dr. Gent has over forty years’ experience in the financial services sector.
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The LRI is honoured to welcome internationally recognized economic historian Dr. Mary A. O’Sullivan to its Board of Governors, effective immediately.
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The Long Run Initiative (LRI) is delighted to announce that Dr. Andrea H. Schneider-Braunberger, CEO since 1996 of the Gesellschaft für Unternehmensgeschichte (GUG) (Business History Society), is joining its international Board of Governors, effective immediately. GUG has a lengthy and impressive record of connecting the worlds of academia, business and government in the German speaking nations. For more details about the appointment and a downloadable press release, click HERE.
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The Long Run Initiative (LRI) is honoured to announce that Dr. Gillian K. Hadfield, Professor of Law, Professor of Strategic Management and Director of the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, University of Toronto, will be joining its international Board of Governors, effective immediately. For more details and a downloadable press release, click HERE.
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In association with the Chief Executives’ Club at Queen’s University Belfast, Dr Michael Aldous, Senior Lecturer in Management at Queen’s chaired a thorough discussion of the issues and implications of de/reindustrialisation. Panel members included Dr Graham Brownlow, Senior Lecturer in Economics, Queen’s University Belfast; Dr Judy Stephenson, Associate Professor in Economics and Finance of the Built Environment, University College London; Dr Tirthankar Roy, Professor in Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science; and Rose Mary Stalker, Chair of Invest Northern Ireland. The complete discussion is available HERE.
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On October 2, 2020, LRI held its first online conference: Big Tech: Monopoly’s Second Moment? The Evolution and Trajectory of Government Policy and Corporate Strategy.
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