Economic Development & Productivity

Events

CALIBRATING THE CLIMATE TRANSITION: SUSTAINABILITY, ENERGY SECURITY, PROSPERITY AND SOCIAL IMPACT IN THE COLD WAR II ERA

Changing the Narrative on Climate: the LRI/BMO CI Symposium

19 May 2022 | Queen’s Park, Toronto

A convergence of factors – climate change, geopolitical conflict and inflationary pressures – has brought the debate on how to balance sustainability with security, prosperity and social impact into much sharper focus.

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DE/RE- INDUSTRIALIZATION: LEGACIES, CHALLENGES AND FUTURE PROSPECTS

13 January 2021 | Online Briefing

Industries are relocating and employment needs are changing. How should corporations and governments handle the negative fallout on economies, societies and political systems? Should we – could we? – re-industrialize?

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PRECEDENTS IN AN UNPRECEDENTED WORLD: INSIGHTS FOR PANDEMIC ERA LEADERS

4 June 2020 | Online Briefing

How might Covid-19 aﬀect businesses, the ﬁnancial system, inequality and globalization? What can leaders learn from past pandemics, economic depressions and national crises?

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Articles

Changing the Narrative on Climate: the LRI/BMO CI Symposium

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?

Confronting The Productivity Challenge Synopsis

Since the Global Financial Crisis, productivity – a 250 year-old engine of economic growth – has flat-lined. How do we tackle such a serious and complex issue?

An Economist’s Guide to Economic History

The LRI are delighted to support the launch of the new book, An Economist’s Guide to Economic History, Edited by Dr Matthias Blum and Dr Chris Colvin, colleagues at Queen’s University Belfast, and with chapters contributed by LRI Directors, Professor John Turner and Dr Michael Aldous. The book will be formally launched at an event at QUB on the 18th January with a Roundtable Discussion including contributions from Prof. Wendy Carlin, Prof. Nicholas Crafts and Paul Winfree.