Eric Helleiner, University of Waterloo

The Status Quo Crisis examines the responses to the global financial crisis of 2008. It analyzes how remarkably little has changed in global financial governance, despite wide-spread calls for fundamental reform, and explains why the widespread expectations of transformation have turned out – at least so far – to be so wrong.

Eric Helleiner is Faculty of Arts Chair in International Political Economy and Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo and Balsillie School of International Affairs. His most recent books include Forgotten Foundations of Bretton Woods (2014), The Status Quo Crisis (2014) and (as co-editor) The Great Wall of Money (2014). He has been a Canada Research Chair and has won the Trudeau Foundation Fellows Prize, Donner Book Prize and the Symons Award for Excellence in Teaching. He is presently co-editor with Jonathan Kirshner of the book series Cornell Studies in Money.

Sponsored by The Department of Political Science & The Institute of Political Economy, Carleton University; and
International Political Economy Network, University of Ottawa