Jim Stanford is a
Canadian
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economist
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and founder of the Progressive Economics Forum. He holds a
master's degree
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Cambridge University
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and a
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
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''. In 2016 Stanford relocated to Australia, where he is the founding director of the Centre for the Future of Work, a left wing research organisation funded by the public policy think tank,
The Australia Institute
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The institute has offices in Ca ...
. He is also a regular contributor on economics to
Huffington Post Australia.
Published works
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
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* ''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
Peer-reviewed articles
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 Regulate Work and Income (1980)
References
External links
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Canadian economists
Living people
The New School alumni
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
The Globe and Mail columnists
Year of birth missing (living people)