Jim Stanford
Encyclopedia
Jim Stanford, a Canadian economist
, is economist for the Canadian Auto Workers
and founder of the Progressive Economics Forum. He holds a Master’s degree in Economics from Cambridge University, and a Ph.D.
from the New School for Social Research. He is author of a column for the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail
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Economist
An economist is a professional in the social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy...
, is economist for the Canadian Auto Workers
Canadian Auto Workers
The Canadian Auto Workers is one of Canada's largest and highest profile social unions. While rooted in Ontario's large auto plants of Windsor, Brampton, Oakville, St...
and founder of the Progressive Economics Forum. He holds a Master’s degree in Economics from Cambridge University, and a Ph.D.
Doctorate
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from the New School for Social Research. He is author of a column for the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail
The Globe and Mail
The Globe and Mail is a nationally distributed Canadian newspaper, based in Toronto and printed in six cities across the country. With a weekly readership of approximately 1 million, it is Canada's largest-circulation national newspaper and second-largest daily newspaper after the Toronto Star...
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Books
- Economics for Everyone: A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism (with Tony Biddle) London ; Ann Arbor, MI : Pluto Press, 2008.
- Challenging The Market: The Struggle To Regulate Work And Income (with Leah F. Vosko and the Challenging the Market Conference), 2004
- Paper Boom: Why Real Prosperity Requires a New Approach to Canada's Economy, Lorimer, 1999
- Power, Employment, and Accumulation: Social Structures in Economic Theory and Policy (with Lance Taylor and Ellen Houston) Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe 2000
- Estimating the effects of North American Free Trade: A three-country general equilibrium model with "real- world" assumptions, 1993
- Social dumping under North American free trade, 1993.
- Going south: Cheap labour as an unfair subsidy in North American free trade, 1991
Other publications
- Sharing the Work, Sparing the Planet: Work Time, Consumption, and Ecology. (book review): in Labour/Le Travail (Digital - Jul 28, 2005)
- Gomery, upside down.(CANADA): in Catholic New Times (Digital - Jul 25, 2005)
- Janis Sarra, ed., Corporate Governance in Global Capital Markets.(Book Review): in Labour/Le Travail (Digital - Jan 25, 2006)
- Introduction.(Forum on Labour and the Economic Crisis: Can the Union Movement Rise to the Occasion?)(Essay):in Labour/Le Travail by Jim Stanford (Digital - Jan 26, 2010)
- Challenging the Market the Struggle To R (1980)