In this article Professor Turner and Dr. Mussio discuss the recurring boom-bust cycle in technology and markets, using the recent DeepSeek AI breakthrough as an example. The article highlights how decision-makers often overlook early warning signs – but understanding historical cycles can help businesses better navigate future technological shifts.

What can history teach us about today’s financial landscape? In the latest episode of the popular BMO Capital Markets podcast, SIERC CEO and LRI Chair Dr. Laurence B. Mussio interviews Professor John Turner, co-author of the award-winning Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles. Together they discuss: The echoes of past booms and […]

It is with great delight that SIERC announces the election of SIERC CEO Dr. Laurence B. Mussio to the UK’s prestigious Royal Historical Society. Founded in 1868, “the Royal Historical Society promotes and defends the scholarly study of the past and speaks for the interests of history and historians for the wider benefit of all,” […]

This second title in the Bank of Montreal historical series provides the definitive, scholarly history of one of the North Atlantic world’s oldest and most consequential financial institutions.

Volume 1: Un Dominion et des capitaux, 1817-1945 Volume 2: Domaines en mutation, 1946-2017

Published in Policy: Canadian Politics and Public Policy, 13 May 2019

“Examining an astonishing range of material, A Vision Greater than Themselves celebrates the evolution of one bank and how it made its mark.”

“À partir d’une gamme incroyablement vaste de documents, Un destin plus grand que soi célèbre l’évolution d’une banque et la manière dont elle a laissé sa marque.”

This publication reproduces some of the keynote addresses Dr. Mussio made across the North Atlantic world to mark the bicentennial of BMO Bank of Montreal. It was made available internally to the Bank’s 46,000 employees December 2017. A limited number of special edition hard copies were also produced to accompany the publication.

“Written to be accessible and engaging while telling an important story, this history of Bell reached over 75,000 people and was widely praised as a model of its genre.”