| Abstract: | AT their virtual meeting on Feb-ruary 19,leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) pledged in a joint statement to make 2021 a turning point for multilateralism.Amid global volatility,multilateral coopera-tion is facing a range of new challenges that need the guidance of innovation and inspiration of a practical trailblaz-ing approach.Nonetheless,despite such uncertainty across the world,the pledge from the G7 sent a positive sign.The stance of supporting and encouraging international cooperation taken by the G7 since its founding in 1975 is reminis-cent of the study of the world renowned economist Richard N.Cooper,widely recognized as the founder of study on international cooperation in econom-ics.Cooper helped lay the theoretical ground for the founding of G7.The Maurits C.Boas Professor of Interna-tional Economics at Harvard University died of cancer on December 23,2020,at the age of 86. |
