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Monday, November 26, 2012
Speakers:
• Peter Victor, Professor, York University
• Ross McKitrick, Professor, University of Guelph
• Marc-André Pigeon, Director, Financial Sector Policy, Credit Union Central of Canada
Monday, November 26, 2012
Speakers:
• Alex Coram, Winthrop Professor, University of Western Australia
• Carl Wennerlind, Professor, Barnard College, Columbia University
• Ronald Wintrobe, Professor, Western University; Co-Director, Political Economy Research Group, Western University
Monday, November 26, 2012
Speakers:
Lance Taylor, Arnhold Professor of International, Cooperation and Development, The New School for Social Research
Judy Klein, Professor and Associate Director, Institutional Research, Mary Baldwin College
John Smithin, Professor, York University
Monday, November 26, 2012
Speaker: Emma Rothschild, Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor, Harvard University
Monday, November 26, 2012
Speakers:
• Anton Korinek, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland
• Antoine Mandel, Associate Professor, Université Paris 1
• Christopher Ragan, Associate Professor, McGill University
Respondents:
• Cars Hommes, Professor, University of Amsterdam
• Dawn Parker, Associate Professor, University of Waterloo
Friday, November 23, 2012
Blake LeBaron, Abram L. and Thelma Sachar, Chair of International Economics, Brandeis International Business School
Friday, November 23, 2012
Opportunities as chances: Maximizing the probability that everything succeeds.
Speaker: Roberto Veneziani, Senior Lecturer, Queen Mary, University of London
Friday, November 23, 2012
Demand and Production
Speaker: Steven Fazzari, Professor, Washington University
Friday, November 23, 2012
Peter Skott, Professor, University of Massachusetts
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
David A. Welch and Alistair Edgar
The United Nations (UN) system includes an array of specialized agencies and bodies that cover a broad range of ideas from human rights and democracy to nuclear non-proliferation and global governance. What's working well? What isn't? Are the criticisms of some of the major organs, such as the Security Council, valid? Which functional agencies are in need of strengthening? Alistair Edgar, ACUNS (The Academic Council on the United Nations System), stops by Inside the Issues for a discussion of the UN system, its strengths and its weaknesses. He notes that while we tend to think of the UN as a huge bureaucracy with ample resources, it is far smaller, weaker and underfunded than we may imagine.
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
John Helliwell, University of British Columbia, concludes CIGI '12 on a positive note by considering a new set of objectives for global policy makers.
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
The final session examined the lasting effects of the crisis on global economic and strategic leadership. It drew on previous sessions by considering the connection between global economic size and the leadership needed to resolve global collection action problems.
