Thomas J. Courchene

Richard Cooper (Harvard) examines government, markets, and citizens in the millennium; Mark Zacher (UBC), Ronald McKinnon (Stanford), and Sylvia Ostry (U of T) provide three perspectives on the changing nature of supra-natural economic and political space; Paul Boothe (U of A) focuses on alternative ways to finance the shift toward a more decentralized federation; David Wolfe (U of T) reflects on the emergence of the region state; Keith Banting (Queen's) examines the evolution of the social contract; and Richard Simeon (U of T) discusses implications of the information revolution for sovereignty and democracy. Appended to each paper are comments of the assigned discussant and an edited version of the floor discussion. Robert Young (Western) is the volume rapporteur.

Continuing the focus of earlier volumes on ways in which economic growth, globalization, and nationalism are being forged and reshaped by growth in the knowledge-based economy, this fourth volume of the Bell Canada Papers on Economic and Public Policy explores policy frameworks for a knowledge economy from a variety of perspectives.

This second volume in the Bell Canada Papers on Economic and Public Policy focuses on stabilization issues, growth and innovation, and labour markets. The essays explore linkages among macro-stabilization policy, economic growth, innovation activity, and distribution.

This first volume in the Bell Canada Papers on Economic and Public Policy includes essays on productivity and growth, the cost of capital and competitive advantage, globalization and competition policy, worker co-operation and technical change, three visions of competitiveness, agents of change and economic growth, and environmental quality and policy in a global economy.