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Faculty Media: Read, Watch, Listen

Including a new podcast venture that presents accessible research on the increasingly pressing issue of inequality

Clementine Van Effenterre presents InequaliTalks: accessible research done by young economists on inequality, one of today’s most pressing issues in the public conversation. She also guested on the Financial Post podcast ‘Down to Business’, explaining how school reopening this fall could shape the pandemic recovery.
Peter Cziraki discusses his co-authored paper “‘CEO Turnover and Volatility under Long-Term Employment Contracts”.
Ismael Mourifié comments on changes in economic theory.
Michael Smart is co-director of the Finances of the Nation project. This is a new venture by academic researchers, in partnership with the Canadian Tax Foundation, to assemble Canadian public finance data and make it available to researchers, journalists, students, and the general public.
Loren Brandt is co-editor of Policy, Regulation and Innovation in China’s Electricity and Telecom Industries, which examines the assumption that China’s state-led innovation system is a successful alternative to the more market-driven system in the United States and the West.
Gordon Anderson‘s Multilateral Wellbeing Comparison in a Many Dimensioned World: Ordering and Ranking Collections of Groups investigates the challenges for social science of measuring and modelling behaviour and progress in society.

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2020 Newsletter Contents

MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR

COVID-19 RESEARCH IN THE DEPARTMENT

PROMOTIONS, APPOINTMENTS, NEW FACES, RETIREMENTS

YORAM HALEVY WINS THE JOHN RAE PRIZE

WINNER OF THE DOUG PURVIS MEMORIAL PRIZE

AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL BEST PAPER PRIZE

OTHER HONOURS, AWARDS AND POSITIONS

IN MEMORIAM: MEL WATKINS, PROFESSOR EMERITUS

IN MEMORIAM: WAHIDUL HAQUE, PROFESSOR EMERITUS

GOOD TEACHING’S LEGACY DOWN THE YEARS

FACULTY MEDIA: READ, WATCH, LISTEN

VISIT OUR ONLINE PHOTO GALLERY

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