Watson, William George

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Watson, William George

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        1952-

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        William George Watson was born on the 6th of January 1952 in Lachine, LaSalle. Having grown up with a taste for writing, he first wished to major in English from McGill University in the early 1970s. But when he was gifted by his father a book on economy and took a course in the same field, that all changed forever. Since then, he would go on to become one of the most prominent scholars in the field of Canadian economics, a teacher at McGill University’s department of Economics from 1977 to 2017 and one of the few humorous columnists in his field. During the nineties, he would also marry, in 1991, lawyer Julia Scott and become the father of two boys, Scott Douglas Watson (born in 1993) and David George Watson (born in 1995). Since 2017, he has retired from his teaching appointment at McGill University at the age of 65 years old

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