Graham Lecture 2024-2025
Title:聽The Disappearing Middle Ground:聽Understanding and Addressing Political Polarization.
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November 22, at 2:30pm, MacDonald Building, University Hall.
新加坡六合彩开奖直播 the Graham Lecture
The Graham Lecture is an annual event supported by a memorial fund established in memory of John F. Graham, a long-time member of the 新加坡六合彩开奖直播 Department of Economics, who died in 1990.
John Graham was a member of the Economics Department at 新加坡六合彩开奖直播 from 1949-1990, and Chair of the Department from 1960-1970. He was a public finance economist who specialized, in particular, in the field of intergovernmental fiscal relations. He was a consultant to the Byrne Royal Commission on Finance and Municipal Taxation in New Brunswick and to the Newfoundland Royal Commission on Education, Public Services and Provincial-Municipal Relations in the 1960s, and chair of the Nova Scotia Royal Commission on Education, Public Services and Provincial-Municipal Relations in the 1970s. He was President of the Canadian Economics Association in 1970-1971 and Vice-President of the Royal Society of Canada in 1977-1978.
John Graham was, perhaps above all else, an educator who was deeply committed to teaching.聽
Past Graham Lectures
| Oct 15 2022 | Dr. Herb Emery University of New Brunswick |
Back to the Future or the End of History? Lessons for the Future of Atlantic Economy from Government Economic Development Strategies of the Past |
| Nov 28 2019 | Angela Redish聽 University of British Columbia | From ducats to Libra: New monies in historical perspective |
| March 28 2019 | Edward Wolff New York University |
The Collapse of Middle Class Wealth in the US... but its Rise (?) in Canada |
| November 30 2017 | Kevin Milligan University of British Columbia |
Federal-Provincial taxation for Canada's next 50 years |
| March 9 2017 | David Green University of British Columbia |
Spillovers from Canada鈥檚 Resource Boom and How They May Have Staved off America's Fate (for now) |
| March 17 2016 | Michael Wolfson University of Ottawa |
Freedom 55, Not: Prospects for Canadians' Retirement Incomes |
| March 5 2015 | Miles Corak University of Ottawa |
'Inequality is the root of social evil,' or maybe not: Two stories about inequality and public policy |
| March 27 2014 | Philip Oreopoulos University of Toronto |
How Behavioural Economics Can Help You at School and in Life |
| February 21 2013 | Nicole Fortin University of British Columbia |
Leaving Boys Behind: Gender Disparities in High Achievement |
| February 16 2012 | Mike Veall McMaster University |
The Top of the Income Distribution in Canada |
| November 25 2010 | Arthur Sweetman McMaster University |
Immigrants in Canada's Workforce: How Do They Fare? |
| April 8 2010 | Michael Baker University of Toronto |
Canada's Universal Children's Programs: A Case for Targeting? |
| October 30 2008 | Robert Allen Oxford University |
The Industrial Revolution and the Rise of the West |
| November 16 2007 | Curtis Eaton University of Calgary |
Well-being, Income, Growth, and Measuring the Economy |
| March 9 2007 | Paul Beaudry University of British Columbia |
Globalization and the Income Distribution |
| March 10 2005 | Jim Stanford Canadian Auto Workers |
Canada's Industrial Structure: Why is it regressing, is it a problem and what can we do about it? |
| March 25 2004 | Nancy Olewiler Simon Fraser University |
Can Prices Protect Nature? |
| March 13 2003 | Charles Beach Queen's University |
Chances in the Canadian Income Distribution: Alternative Explanations & Policy Implications |
| March 7 2002 | Pierre Fortin Universite du Quebec a Montreal |
Keynes Resurrected |
| March 15 2001 | Robert Evans University of British Columbia |
Can Economists Speak Truth to Power? Ethics, Economics and Health Policy |
| March 23 2000 | Bev Dahlby University of Alberta |
The Interdependence of Federal and Provincial Fiscal Policies |
| March 4 1999 | Francois Vaillancourt Universite a Montreal |
Canada's Federal Arrangement: Is the Most Enough? |
| March 16 1998 | Mike McCracken Informetrica |
Demise of Contracyclical Fiscal Policy in Canada |
| March 21 1997 | Jacques Parizeau former Quebec PM |
Economic Implications of Quebec Sovereignty |
| March 14 1996 | Robin Boadway Queen's University |
The Folly of Decentralizing the Canadian Federation |
| March 9 1995 | Allan Maslove Carleton University |
Time to Fold or Up the Ante: The Federal Role in Health Care |
| March 16 1994 | John Helliwell UBC and Harvard University |
Income Convergence and Migration Among Canadian Provinces |
| April 15 1993 | Richard Bird University of Toronto |
Federal-Provincial Taxation in Turbulent Times |
| March 19 1992 | Milton Moore University of British Columbia |
The Triumph of Capitalist Ideology |