Past Event! Note: this event has already taken place.
| When: | Friday, March 3rd, 2017 |
| Time: | 10:00 am — 11:15 am |
| Location: | Richcraft Hall, Second Floor Conference Rooms |
| Audience: | Carleton Community, Current Students, Staff and Faculty |
| Cost: | Free |
This panel is a part of the Visions for Canada, 2042 Conference. You can learn more about the conference and register to attend by visiting the conference webpage.
Technology and innovation are fundamental determinants of sustained economic growth. In recent years two views have emerged. The ‘Racing with the Machines’ view paints an optimistic picture for the coming decades and postulates that ongoing technological advances and innovation are on the verge of a new era of rapid productivity gains that will stimulate high levels of employment and prosperity. The ‘Running into the Headwinds’ view portends a pessimistic picture, whereby rapid acceleration in technology will likely replace humans across a broad set of skills, and cause a surge in unemployment on a global scale. Which scenario is more likely? What kinds of adjustments would the Canadian economy undergo? These are important questions to which one can only provide speculative answers. Nevertheless, this panel presents a forward-looking analysis of these possibilities over the short (2-10 years) and long run (10-20 years) and explores their relevance for the Canadian economy.
Presenters:
- Martin Geiger is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University and is cross-appointed with the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies. He is an active member of Carleton’s ‘Migration & Diaspora Studies’ (MDS) initiative and the Borders in Globalization (BIG) project. Geiger is the founding editor of the peer-reviewed ‘Mobility & Politics’ series and he initiated the joint faculty-student research cluster on ‘Mobility & Politics’.
- Christopher M. Gunn is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Carleton University. His research fields are macroeconomics, credit and banking, and technological change, with a particular focus on analyses of expectations-driven business cycles, real-financial linkages, and the effects and consequences of technological adoption on the economy.
- Hashmat Khan is a Professor of Economics at Carleton University. He is also currently serving as co-director of the Centre for Monetary and Financial Economics at Carleton University. His research focuses on business cycles, and the factors that influence, create, and disturb such cycles.
- Maya Papineau is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Carleton University. She specializes in environmental and energy economics, the economics of climate change, renewable energy, and energy efficiency policy. She has experience as a policy analyst for Natural Resources Canada and as a researcher for the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research in Oslo, Norway.
- Casey Warman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Dalhousie University. Warman specializes in the area of labour economics, and has published extensively on issues related to how immigrants navigate the Canadian economy and how the Canadian immigrant selection process influences the Canadian labour market.
- Christopher Worswick is Professor and Chair of the Economics Department at Carleton University. He is an expert in the fields of labour economics and the economics of immigration; his extensive body of work has explored a range of issues pertaining to the Canadian economy, including the intersection of technological change and immigrant income, the relation between wage returns and mid-career job training, and immigrant earning profiles.