Academic Honours
- 1982 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
- 1987-1988 President, Canadian Economics Association/Association Canadienne d'Economique
- 1988-1989 Faculty of Social Science Research Professor, University of Western Ontario
- 1994 Douglas Purvis Memorial Prize, awarded by the Canadian Economics Association for a significant work on Canadian Economic Policy (joint recipient with W.B.P. Robson)
- 1999 Hellmuth Prize for distinguished research in the Humanities and Social Sciences by a member of the faculty of the University of Western Ontario
- 2004-5 Donner Prize for the best book of the year on Canadian public policy. (Joint recipient with W. B. P. Robson)
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