Taking a Gamble on Illegal Betting

Published: 15 September 2013

As the English Premier League season starts, punters play the odds despite the country's ban on wagers - and millions are taking the risk.

Australia’s top court decides in favor of trade detention centers

Published: 10 February 2016

On a flight back from Moscow in 1992, following meetings with parliament members and the late Mr. Yegor Gaidar, then finance minister, I wrote up the tongue-in-cheek conversation I had with them at...

Macroeconomics, accountability and the 2008 financial crisis

Published: 24 February 2017

In a recent essay for the inaugural issue of American Affairs, Desautels Faculty of Management professor Reuven Brenner writes that it is time to drop the macroeconomic myths that have been...

Episode 11 with Reuven Brenner - The Force of Finance

Published: 4 June 2013

Reuven Brenner holds the REPAP Chair in Economics at McGill University’s Faculty of Management. He has written numerous books, including The Force of Finance: Triumph of the Capital Markets (2002)....

A Europe losing cohesion

Published: 4 June 2014

Ever since France's defeat in 1870-1 in the Franco-Prussian war, when military strength was identified with numerical superiority, demography, language and culture have become permanent parts of,...

Canadian elections: Why did inexperience triumph?

Published: 30 October 2015

Article written by Professor Reuven Brenner...

Trump (or Asia) will make the Metropolitan Opera great again

Published: 12 December 2016

Though Broadway musicals (including Andrew Lloyd Webber and even the late Pavarotti’s occasional Atlantic City solo) do not compare in many minds to opera, Las Vegas has been discovering the long...

Toward a New Bretton Woods Agreement

Published: 23 May 2017

Desautels Professor of Finance, Reuven Brenner, was recently published in American Affairs Journal, a quarterly journal of public policy and political thought.

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