Prof. John Helliwell

John Helliwell is one of Canada's younger economists, whose work is widely recognized internationally both in governments and in academic research. His earlier studies of the effect of governmental monetary and fiscal policies on private and public spending or new capital goods developed into a series of important research endeavors for two royal commissions, the Bank of Canada and various environmental and consumer councils. Not only did he help to construct RDX2, an economic simulation model of the Canadian economy, but later to 'link' it to similar models of economies with which Canada trades. More recently he has turned to the effects on the Canadian economy of proposed public and private stabilization and energy policies. All these activities have led to very numerous contributions to books and journals and to speeches to groups in and out of government and university.