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?
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?
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?
Articles
The Swedish deal, the defence bank and the West’s awakening from its long dream
Canada is moving away from heavy dependence on the United States by rebuilding domestic defence production and helping create a new multinational “defence bank” meant to fund long term military capacity across democratic allies. Writing in The Globe and Mail, Dr. Laurence B. Mussio and Dr. Jessica M. Lomas analyze this shift in Canadian defence strategy. They look at what it is, why it’s needed and Canada’s role, examining the historical echoes and the challenges ahead.
LRI Research Fellow wins award
Our congratulations go to LRI Senior Research Fellow Dr. Tiarnán Heaney who was awarded the Conniffe Prize at this year’s Irish Economic Association conference for the best paper by a young economist.
His study of an early Irish development agency shows how smart place based policy reduced poverty in the west of Ireland by transforming agricultural practices and increasing capital investment. The takeaway: real regional development means expanding opportunity where people already are.
Comhghairdeas Dr. Heaney!
The LRI at the EHS Centenary Conference
The Long Run Institute is delighted to have co sponsored the Economic History Society’s Centenary Conference at the LSE in April 2026, where global scholars presented research on migration, labour, trade, gender, and more. LRI directors Judy Stephenson and John Turner chaired key sessions, while Michael Aldous and Tiarnán Heaney each presented papers. The LRI salutes its contributors and congratulates the Society on its hundred years.