Economic Development & Productivity
Events
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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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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8 November 2019 | Roundtable, Belfast, UK
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?
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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?
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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?
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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.
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