Turning Historical Experience into Judgment.
The Globe and Mail | April 4, 2026 In the fourth and final installment of the Futures @ Risk series published in The Globe and Mail, Dr. Laurence B. Mussio and Dr. Cosimo Pacciani use …
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The Ghost in the Machine is outpacing the real world.
February 6, 2026 | The Globe and Mail In this third “Futures @ Risk” essay, Dr. Laurence B. Mussio and Dr. Cosimo Pacciani use art and history to argue that modern society is governed by …
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Canada has become a place to be from – and opera can teach us a lesson
January 24, 2026 | The Globe and Mail Writing in The Globe and Mail, Dr. Laurence B. Mussio recalls a childhood memory of seeing La Traviata in Sarnia and observes how opera can reveal deeper …
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Why we forget lessons learned from collapsed bridges, burned towns and financial crises
Published January 1, 2026 In their second “Futures @ Risk” essay in The Globe and Mail, Dr. Laurence B. Mussio and Dr. Cosimo Pacciani note the existence of a “strategic amnesia” which allows institutions to …
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Can ambition triumph over stagnation in Carney’s Ottawa?
In this op-ed, Dr. Mussio observes that Canada excels at creating capital and talent but loses both abroad. Of the $2.3 trillion held by major pension funds, only 25 percent is invested domestically. He argues that weak growth opportunities, regulatory uncertainty, and limited scale are widening Canada’s productivity gap by driving investors and skilled workers to the U.S.—but there are ways to reverse this trend so capital and talent choose to stay and grow the economy at home.
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