Gilles Paquet (1936–2019), O.C., MRSC, was Professor Emeritus at the Telfer School of Management and a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre on Governance of the University of Ottawa. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and of the Royal Society of Arts of London, and served as President of the Royal Society of Canada (2003–2005). He studied at Laval, Queen's (Canada) and at the University of California (Los Angeles) where he was Postdoctoral Fellow in Economics. He taught at Carleton University for almost 20 years before joining the University of Ottawa in 1981. He received honorary doctorates from Queen's, Laval, and Thompson Rivers University, received the Public Service Citation Award of APEX, and was made Honorary Member of l'Association des économistes québécois. He was made Member of the Order of Canada in 1992.

Foreword


Preamble – The genealogy of a manière de voir
Introduction – Foundations


Part I – Early probing
Chapter 1 – Ill-structured problems and experimental intelligence
Chapter 2 – MRI for an arterio-sclerotic socio-economy

Part II – Questioning assumptions
Chapter 3 – State-centricity as dogma
Chapter 4 – Solidarity organizations as under-rated option
Chapter 5 – Stewardship versus leadership


Part III – Sketching and designing
Chapter 6 – Federalism as social technology
Chapter 7 – An informational view of the regulatory process
Chapter 8 – An agenda for change in the federal public service


Part IV – Informational and learning perspectives
Chapter 9 – Lamberton’s road to the information and learning economy
Chapter 10 – Evolutionary cognitive economics: provisional framework
Conclusion – Guideposts on the road to collaborative governance


Acknowledgements
Index