Globalization/De-Globalization

Events

An LRI Conversation with Russell Napier

Russel Napier Conversation poster

17 February 2022 | In Conversation Series

In this fireside chat, LRI director John Turner interviews Russell Napier about his new book and the outlook for the global economy.

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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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Articles

Canada’s money lives in exile. We’re rich abroad, but starved at home

Dr. Laurence B. Mussio, writing in The Globe and Mail, observes that Canada excels at creating capital and talent but loses both abroad. Of the $2.3 trillion held by major pension funds, only 25 percent is invested domestically. He argues that weak growth opportunities, regulatory uncertainty, and limited scale are widening Canada’s productivity gap by driving investors and skilled workers to the U.S.—but there are ways to reverse this trend so capital and talent choose to stay and grow the economy at home.

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Learning from a Different Past

Professor Geoffrey Jones, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History at the Harvard Business School (HBS), is the founder of Creating Emerging Markets, an extraordinary initiative that aims to level the playing field in the study of business history through the study of the long run development of emerging markets.

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