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The Neomercantilists
At a time when critiques of free trade policies are
gaining currency, The
Neomercantilists helps make sense of the
protectionist turn, providing the first intellectual history of the
genealogy of neomercantilism. Eric Helleiner identifies
many pioneers of this ideology between the late eighteenth and
early twentieth centuries who backed strategic protectionism and
other forms of government economic activism to promote state wealth
and power. They included not just the famous Friedrich List, but
also numerous lesser-known thinkers, many of whom came from outside
of the West.
Helleiner's novel emphasis on neomercantilism's diverse origins
challenges traditional Western-centric understandings of its
history. It illuminates neglected local intellectual traditions and
international flows of ideas that gave rise to distinctive
varieties of the ideology around the globe, including in Latin
America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia. This rich history left
enduring intellectual legacies, including in the two dominant
powers of the contemporary world economy: China and the United
States.
The result is an exceptional study of a set of profoundly
influential economic ideas. While rooted in the past, it sheds
light on the present moment. The Neomercantilists shows
how we might construct more global approaches to the study of
international political economy and intellectual history, devoting
attention to thinkers from across the world, and to the
cross-border circulation of thought.
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New CIGI Publications Assess Financial Stability Board
The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) is an independent, nonpartisan think tank that addresses international governance challenges. Led by a group of experienced practitioners and distinguished academics, CIGI supports research, forms networks, advances policy debate, builds capacity, and generates ideas for multilateral governance improvements. Conducting an active agenda of research, events and publications, CIGI's interdisciplinary work includes collaboration with policy, business and academic communities around the world. CIGI was founded in 2002 by Jim Balsillie, co-CEO of RIM (Research In Motion), and collaborates with and gratefully acknowledges support from a number of strategic partners, in particular the Government of Canada and the Government of Ontario. For more information, please visit: www.cigionline.org. The basic structure and mandate of the Financial Stability Board builds directly on those of its predecessor, the Financial Stability Forum (FSF). This paper examines whether the FSB will be more successful than the FSF in strengthening international prudential standards. The paper concludes that three features of the FSB will help overcome some of its predecessor's weaknesses: (1) the FSB has more members than the FSF; (2) it has been assigned more effective mechanisms to encourage compliance with international standards; (3) and it has been given a stronger capacity to tackle macroprudential issues. Each of these features also raises a number of new challenges and priorities to be addressed.
Trade Publication Article
Fixing Payments Imbalances Is Central Issue for International Financial Reform
Dr. Helleiner, CIGI Chair in International Governance, argues that governance innovations are needed to solve the issue of imbalances. Among his suggestions are: expanding the G7 financial decision making, creating \"substitution accounts\" to ease the shift away from a dollar-centred international monetary order, fostering a greater role for surplus regions and negotiating new multilateral rules for investment flows. International Payments Imbalances and Global Governance is a publication of \"Breaking Global Deadlocks\" project, undertaken jointly by CIGI and the Centre for Global Studies (CFGS). The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) is an independent, nonpartisan think tank that addresses international governance challenges. Led by a group of experienced practitioners and distinguished academics, CIGI supports research, forms networks, advances policy debate, builds capacity, and generates ideas for multilateral governance improvements. Conducting an active agenda of research, events and publications, CIGI's interdisciplinary work includes collaboration with policy, business and academic communities around the world. CIGI was founded in 2002 by Jim Balsillie, co-CEO of RIM (Research In Motion), and collaborates with and gratefully acknowledges support from a number of strategic partners, in particular the Government of Canada and the Government of Ontario. For more information, please visit www.cigionline.org.
Trade Publication Article
For the birds: recollections and rambles
Fred admits that, despite his many years of birding, he does not keep a life list, preferring to concentrate his efforts closer to home, namely Presqu'ile Park. This did not prevent him however, from driving to Milford to see a black-bellied whistling duck from Texas, or a northern wheatear on Wolfe Island. His earlier trips as a teen birder in Toronto and Peterborough involved more effort, and he often depended on the generosity of others to take him birding somewhere. Long ago, he saw the advantage that a bicycle would have in furthering his efforts in finding new birds and he used it to access birding areas that previously had been beyond reach. On one exhausting trip, he relates, he biked from Hamilton to Burlington with a cohort to see a western grebe that had been reported there. Of course, the bird failed to appear, but he had better luck on another trip to see an American Avocet. Only one reliable field guide available then - Peterson's (and Fred admits to having memorized it from cover to cover), sub-standard binoculars, and a general lack of acceptance to birding as a legitimate hobby, things have sure changed in recent years. Fred, in his closing chapter, The Next Generation, mentions a number of younger birders who have given him reason to look forward to the future of birding with optimism. He is understandably moved by the enthusiasm of many of the younger birders he sees entering the park, reminding him of the days when he, too, was starting out as teen birder. If I were to mention two of the birders who stand out that Fred remembers as very young birders who have gone on to do great things, they would be Ian Shanahan and Doug McRae, two of the most respected birders in Presqu'ile Park today.
Newspaper Article
For the birds: recollections and rambles
With so many years of birding under his belt from the age of 12, it is appropriate that Fred should write a book on his hobby, from its \"fledgling\" beginnings when birdwatching was considered a namby pamby pursuit, favoured by elderly spinsters, retired teachers and school boys on a hike. His book, \"For the Birds: Recollections and Rambles\", is just that - a memoir on his life as a birder, looking back to some of those earlier days and the friendships he made with fellow birders, some of them renowned like Fred Bodsworth, Jim Baillie, Ron Scovell, and Jim Woodford, all of whom I had also met when I was a young birder. That he was able to extract his most memorable experiences and get them in a book of only 71 pages must have been a challenge. However, he tackled the job admirably, the result being a chronicle of his life as a birder. Only one reliable field guide available then - Peterson's (and Fred admits to having memorized it from cover to cover), sub-standard binoculars, and a general lack of acceptance to birding as a legitimate hobby, things have sure changed in recent years. Fred, in his closing chapter, The Next Generation, mentions a number of younger birders who have given him reason to look forward to the future of birding with optimism. He is understandably moved by the enthusiasm of many of the younger birders he sees entering the park, reminding him of the days when he, too, was starting out as teen birder. If I were to mention two of the birders who stand out that Fred remembers as very young birders who have gone on to do great things, they would be Ian Shanahan and Doug McRae, two of the most respected birders in Presqu'ile Park today.
Newspaper Article
For the birds: recollections and rambles
Fred admits that, despite his many years of birding, he does not keep a life list, preferring to concentrate his efforts closer to home, namely Presqu'ile Park. This did not prevent him however, from driving to Milford to see a black-bellied whistling duck from Texas, or a northern wheatear on Wolfe Island. His earlier trips as a teen birder in Toronto and Peterborough involved more effort, and he often depended on the generosity of others to take him birding somewhere. Long ago, he saw the advantage that a bicycle would have in furthering his efforts in finding new birds and he used it to access birding areas that previously had been beyond reach. On one exhausting trip, he relates, he biked from Hamilton to Burlington with a cohort to see a western grebe that had been reported there. Of course, the bird failed to appear, but he had better luck on another trip to see an American Avocet. Only one reliable field guide available then - Peterson's (and Fred admits to having memorized it from cover to cover), sub-standard binoculars, and a general lack of acceptance to birding as a legitimate hobby, things have sure changed in recent years. Fred, in his closing chapter, The Next Generation, mentions a number of younger birders who have given him reason to look forward to the future of birding with optimism. He is understandably moved by the enthusiasm of many of the younger birders he sees entering the park, reminding him of the days when he, too, was starting out as teen birder. If I were to mention two of the birders who stand out that Fred remembers as very young birders who have gone on to do great things, they would be Ian Shanahan and Doug McRae, two of the most respected birders in Presqu'ile Park today.
Newspaper Article
For the birds: recollections and rambles
With so many years of birding under his belt from the age of 12, it is appropriate that Fred should write a book on his hobby, from its \"fledgling\" beginnings when birdwatching was considered a namby pamby pursuit, favoured by elderly spinsters, retired teachers and school boys on a hike. His book, \"For the Birds: Recollections and Rambles\", is just that - a memoir on his life as a birder, looking back to some of those earlier days and the friendships he made with fellow birders, some of them renowned like Fred Bodsworth, Jim Baillie, Ron Scovell, and Jim Woodford, all of whom I had also met when I was a young birder. That he was able to extract his most memorable experiences and get them in a book of only 71 pages must have been a challenge. However, he tackled the job admirably, the result being a chronicle of his life as a birder. Only one reliable field guide available then - Peterson's (and Fred admits to having memorized it from cover to cover), sub-standard binoculars, and a general lack of acceptance to birding as a legitimate hobby, things have sure changed in recent years. Fred, in his closing chapter, The Next Generation, mentions a number of younger birders who have given him reason to look forward to the future of birding with optimism. He is understandably moved by the enthusiasm of many of the younger birders he sees entering the park, reminding him of the days when he, too, was starting out as teen birder. If I were to mention two of the birders who stand out that Fred remembers as very young birders who have gone on to do great things, they would be Ian Shanahan and Doug McRae, two of the most respected birders in Presqu'ile Park today.
Newspaper Article
Opinion online
For more on the economic crisis, see thestar.com/opinion for Eric Helleiner's analysis of the failure of financial regulation after...
Newspaper Article
More political interference
Gerry Helleiner's piece is one more reminder of the ideological intent of the Harper government and its overwhelming desire to silence dissenting voices.
Newspaper Article