February 4, 2019
Edited by Erik Garzke and Jon R. Lindsay “These strong essays show that cyber, conventional weapons, and diplomacy can be employed in complex mixes. This deeper understanding of how things are likely to unfold should inform scholars, policy-makers, and anyone...
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January 30, 2019
The 2018 Canada-UK Colloquium (CUKC) on “Artificial Intelligence & Society: Choices, Risks & Opportunities” took place at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto from November 23 to 25, 2018. Established in 1971,...
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This paper by David A. Wolfe was published as part of the Unlocking Demand for Innovation research program, under the direction of Joanne Castonguay. The manuscript was copy-edited by Barry Norris, proofreading was by Robyn Packard, editorial coordination was by Francesca...
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January 23, 2019
The first annual Canadian Cyber Dialogue convened in Ottawa in November 2018, bringing together 71 participants from government, the private sector, civil society, and the Munk School’s Citizen Lab to discuss pressing cybersecurity issues facing this country. Under Chatham House...
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January 10, 2019
The majority of federal government spending comes in the form of transfer payments to Canada’s provinces and citizens. However, not all of these transfers are allocated in a fair and principled manner. Previous Mowat Centre reports have assessed the fairness...
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January 10, 2019
This paper from the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy finds that the departments, firms, and companies that are at the heart of infrastructure projects suffer from...
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December 3, 2018
By Ernő Munkácsi A gripping first-hand account of the devastating “last chapter” of the Holocaust, written by a privileged eyewitness, the secretary of the Hungarian Judenrat, and a member of Budapest’s Jewish elite, How It Happened is a unique testament...
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October 29, 2018
By Carolyn Hughes Tuohy One of the most persistent puzzles in comparative public policy concerns the conditions under which discontinuous policy change occurs. In Remaking Policy, Carolyn Hughes Tuohy advances an ambitious new approach to understanding the relationship between political context...
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Authors Stephan Heblich and Alex Trew establish a causal role for banking access in the spread of the Industrial Revolution over the period 1817–1881 by exploiting unique employment data from 10,528 parishes across England and Wales and a novel instrument....
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Authors Stephan Heblich and Alex Trew establish a causal role for banking access in the spread of the Industrial Revolution over the period 1817–1881 by exploiting unique employment data from 10,528 parishes across England and Wales and a novel instrument....
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