Festschrift and Dinner to Honour David Slater

David Slater was celebrating his 80^th birthday this October. To honour his many contributions to economics in this country, the Centre for the Study of Living Standards organized a dinner that was held Friday, October 19, 2001 in Ottawa at the Chateau Laurier hotel.

At the dinner David was presented with a festschrift entitled The State of Economics in Canada: Festschrift in Honour of David Slater, to which many leading Canadian economists have contributed. In addition, a small number of persons who have worked with David over the years had been asked to say a few works about their experiences with him. Speakers included David Dodge, Ted English, Patrick Grady, Bill Hood, Steve Handfield Jones, Kathleen Macmillan, Ed Neufeld, Simon Reisman, Andrew Sharpe, Gordon Sparks, and Ian Stewart.

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(published in October 2001 by the John Deutsch Institute and the Centre for the Study of Living Standards and distributed by McGill-Queen’s University Press.
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Introduction

• Patrick Grady and Andrew Sharpe, Overview of the Festschrift 
• Patrick Grady, David W. Slater: An Economist for All Seasons 

  Fiscal Federalism

• Robin Boadway, Financing Confederation Revisited: The Economic State of the Federation 

  Taxation

• Richard Birdand Michael Smart, Tax Policy and Tax Research in Canada 
• Jack Mintz, Taxing Future Consumption 
• Jack Mintz and Thomas A. Wilson, Taxes, Efficiency and Economic Growth 

  Pensions

• James E. Pesando, The Canada Pension Plan: Looking Back at the Recent Reforms 
• Lars Osberg, Poverty Among Senior Citizens: A Canadian Success Story 
• William B. P. Robson, Pensions and Health Care in Canada: Inspecting the Pillars 
• Malcolm Hamilton, The Financial Circumstances of the Elderly Canadians and the Implications for the Design of Canada’s Retirement Income System 

  International Economics

• Sylvia Ostry, WTO Membership for China: To Be and Not To Be: Is that the Answer? 
• Katie Macmillan, Doing the Right Thing: The WTO and the Developing World 
• John F. Helliwell and David F. Helliwell, Where Are They Now? Migration Patterns for Graduates of the University of British Columbia 

  Globalization

• Edward P. Neufeld, Adjusting to Globalization: Challenges for the Canadian Banking System 

• Morley Gunderson, North American Economic Integration and Globalization 

  Regional Issues

• Pierre Fortin, Has Quebec's Standard of Living Been Catching Up? 

  Environmental Economics

• Anthony Scott, Economics, Environmental Policies, and Federalism 

  Labour Economics

• Charles Beach and Ross Finnie, Cyclical Changes in Short-Run Earnings Mobility in Canada, 1982-1996 
• W. Craig Riddell, Education and Skills: An Assessment of Recent Canadian Experience 

  Contributors