Reuven Brenner holds the REPAP Chair in Economics at McGill University's School of Management. He is the author of seven books, the most recent of which are The Force of Finance (2002), about how international and domestic finance shapes current affairs, and Labyrinths of Prosperity: Economic Follies, Democratic Remedies (1994). He writes regularly for The Wall Street Journal, Financial Post, Forbes, and Le Figaro.