Dr. Robin Boadway
Fellow
Current Employer
Queen's University
Election Year
1986
Academy
Académie des sciences sociales
Discipline
Economics
Department
Department of Economics
Keywords
Taxation, federalism, government, welfare, microeconomics
Robin Boadway is Canada's most eminent economist in the theory of public finance. He is author of two internationally-recognized textbooks, one in welfare economics and the other in public finance. He has published extensively in leading economic journals on a variety of subjects, with special emphasis on tax policy, fiscal federalism, and redistribution policy. He has participated actively in the academic community and is Past President of the Canadian Economics Association. He has made a major contribution to our understanding of the Canadian fiscal system and of the consequences of the options for reform.