Bill Robson took office as President and CEO of the C.D. Howe Institute in July 2006, after serving as the Institute’s Senior Vice President since 2003 and Director of Research since 2000. He has written extensively on government budgets, pensions, healthcare financing, and on inflation and currency issues, and has won awards from the Policy Research Secretariat, the Canadian Economics Association, and the Donner Canadian Foundation. Bill lectured on public finance and public policy at the University of Toronto from 2000 to 2003. He is a founding director and former President of Civitas, and serves as an advisor to, or director of, several education-related and public affairs organizations.

Articles By Bill Robson

Citizens, the State, and the Crisis: How Canadians can Emerge as Masters, Not Servants, of Government

by Bill Robson on September 24, 2009

A plethora of different theories have been put forward in recent months as to the root causes of the recent financial crisis. In this insightful and thought-provoking piece, economist William Robson offers up three main factors to explain the implosion, analyzes why Canada has weathered the storm fairly well and explains what limited government advocates must do to ensure we come out of the recession stronger, more wealthy and freer than before.

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