Research Catalog

Title

The sterling public servant : a global tribute to Sylvia Ostry / edited by Jacob Ryten.

Publication

Montreal : Published for the Canadian Institute of International Affairs by McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004.

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Additional Authors

• Ostry, Sylvia.
• Ryten, Jacob.
• Canadian Institute of International Affairs.

Description

xvi, 256 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"In The Sterling Public Servant professional colleagues and friends pay homage to a remarkable woman and her enormous span of activities, both academic and governmental. Sylvia Ostry's interests and scholarly writings include labour economics, development and growth, consumer protection, and external trade. Her work eventually focused on the question of whether, in a world dominated by transnational economic giants, there can be harmonious equilibrium, transparency, and coherent policies designed to maintain growth and balance in the global market."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Ostry, Sylvia
• Ostry, Sylvia, 1927-
• Economists > Canada > Biography
• Civil service > Canada > Biography
• Économistes > Canada > Biographies
• Fonction publique > Canada > Biographies
• Canada > Commercial policy
• Canada > Economic policy > 1971-1991
• Canada > Politique commerciale
• Canada > Politique économique > 1971-1991

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Foreword / David A. Dodge -- Introduction / Jacob Ryten -- 1. Canadian diplomacy : past and present / Allan Gotlieb -- 2. Sylvia Ostry : the public servant / Marc Lalonde -- 3. Some problems of summitry and advising Prime Ministers / Gordon Robertson -- 4. The 1982 GATT ministerial / Allan J. MacEachen -- 5. Emerging countries : opportunities and challenges / Jacques de Larosiere -- 6. From trade liberalization to economic integration : the clash between private and public goods / Marina von Neumann Whitman -- 7. Room for differences? : social policy in a global economy / Lars Osberg -- 8. Multinationals and governance / A. Edward Safarian -- 9. Measuring global skills shortages / Mahmood A. Zaidi and Malcolm S. Cohen -- 10. Individualism, federalism, and social responsibility : the evolving social paradigm in the United States / Alice M. Rivlin -- 11. South of the border / Paul Krugman -- 12. Globalization and statistical systems / M. C. McCracken -- 13. Statistics, social relevance, policy, and analysis : why they are bound together / Jacob Ryten -- 14. Economic summitry in the 1980s : a view from a sherpa's tent / Robert Armstrong -- 15. My Japan-Canada relations and Sylvia / Hiroshi Kitamura -- 16. Thoughts on governance from Europe : making sure we don't forget the cosmopolitics / Pascal Lamys -- 17. What comes after globalization? / Renato Ruggiero -- 18. The new world order : staking out Canada's interests / Gordon S. Smith -- Letters of thanks from the Prime Ministers of Canada.

ISBN

0773527915

LCCN

2005362754

OCLC

• ocm55972969
• SCSB-5159725

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries