(left
to right): Back Row: Tom
Wilson, William Strange, David Safarian, John Ries, Peter Pauly,
Richard Caves. 5th Row: Laurence Booth, Walid Hejazi, Nadia Soboleva,
George Georgopolous, Ignatius Horstmann, Steven Globerman, Bernado
Blum, Aaron Sydor. 4th Row: Ann Dupré, Stefan Dupré,
Edward Saraydar, Ronald Hirshhorn, Bernard Ostry, Maryann Feldman,
David Crane, Jianmin Tang, Gerry Helleiner, Andrei Sulzenko, Robert
MacIntosh, John Baldwin, Donald Brean, Randall Morck. 3rd Row: Ashfag
Ahmad, Laura Repo, Kim Coulter, Hugh Arnold. 2nd Row: Paul Safarian,
Gary Sawchuk, Someshwar Rao, Bernard Wolf, Diana Lipsey, Richard
Lipsey, Richard Harris, Lynn MacIntosh, Alan Rugman, Daniel Shapiro,
Bernard Yeung. Front Row: Wulong Gu, Maureen Molot, Joan Safarian,
Edward Safarian, Sylvia Ostry, John Dunning, Lorraine Eden, John
Crispo, Wendy Dobson, Varouj Aivazian, Vivien Choy. (Photograph
by Dario Ruberto taken at Massey College, University of Toronto,
April 24, 2004).
On April
23-25, 2004, a conference titled "Governance, Multinationals
and Growth" was held at the Rotman School of Management, University
of Toronto, in honor
of Professor Emeritus
A. Edward Safarian
on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Born in Hamilton,
Ontario, Prof. Safarian
received his BA in Political Economy from the University
of Toronto in 1946 and
a PhD in Economics from the University
of California, Berkeley,
in 1956. An Economics professor at the University
of Toronto since 1966
and of the Business Economics department since 1989, Safarian has
been President of the Canadian Economics Association (1977-78) and
a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada since 1973. Like many of
his retired colleagues, Professor
Safarian continues to teach part-time
and to publish in scholarly journals including the Journal of
International Business Studies. The conference was organized by Lorraine Eden (Texas
A&M), Wendy Dobson (Toronto) and Walid Hejazi (Toronto). The
papers prepared for the conference were designed to build on the
foundation laid by Safarian -- a major contributor to our understanding
of multinational enterprises, foreign direct investment and public
policy -- by exploring the linkages between multinational enterprises,
growth and governance. The groundwork for a large part of the discussion
was established in Safarian's classic 1966 study Foreign Ownership of Canadian Industry
(University of Toronto
Press), and his 1993 book Multinational Enterprises and Public Policy (Edward Elgar). Sponsored by the Rotman
School, Industry Canada, and the Department of Foreign Affairs and International
Trade, attendees at the conference included public policy officials
and more than 50 academic colleagues from across Canada, the U.S. the UK, and Australia. Among those presenting papers were Richard Caves (Harvard), John Dunning (Reading & Rutgers), Alan Rugman
(Indiana) and Bernard
Yeung (New
York University). See the attached photograph and list of names
of many of the conference attendees. The conference papers are being
revised for the book Governance, Multinationals and Growth,
edited by Lorraine Eden (Texas A&M) and Wendy Dobson
(Toronto), to be published by Edward
Elgar in 2005.
