John Maynard Keynes said the objective of "analysis is … to provide ourselves with an organized and orderly method of thinking out particular problems .… This is the nature of economic thinking."
It is either brave or foolhardy of the Ottawa Economics Association to organize another conference around Canada's perennial challenges of demographics, productivity, and potential growth.
While Canada is a country of immense strengths and considerable resilience, its economy is underperforming relative to its potential, Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney said today in a speech to the Ottawa Economics Association.
The Bank of Canada today announced that Professor Paul Beaudry of the University of British Columbia is the recipient of the Bank's Research Fellowship for 2010.
The Bank of Canada today is celebrating the 75th anniversary of the opening of its doors for business and to mark the occasion, Governor Mark Carney met with economics students from across Canada.