He is a former chief economist at CIBC World Markets and is currently a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation.
He then worked as an economist in the Ontario Government Treasury Department where he was responsible for projecting future interest rates.
The End of Growth was released in a US edition on October 16, 2012, under the title "The Big Flatline - Oil and the No-Growth Economy" (ISBN 978-0-230-34218-7).
A fourth book published by Random House and titled "The Expendables - How the Middle Class Got Screwed By Globalization" was released in Canada on August 18, 2020.
This book explores how central banks' actions during COVID-19 lockdowns set economies on track for massive inflation, in commodities and in wages.
[7] Rubin argues that the return of industrial production from low wage countries such as China strengthens the bargaining position of workers, particularly unionized blue collar labor.