Jim Stanford is a Canadian economist and founder of the Progressive Economics Forum. He holds a master's degree in economics from Cambridge University and a doctorate from the

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. He is author of a column for the Canadian newspaper ''

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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. He is also a regular contributor on economics to

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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 WorldCat
/ref> * ''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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