John Loxley (194228 July 2020) was a Canadian economist. Loxley obtained a doctorate in economics at the

University of Leeds The University of Leeds is a public research university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was established in 1874 as the Yorkshire College of Science. In 1884, it merged with the Leeds School of Medicine (established 1831) and was renamed Y ...

, completing his doctoral dissertation, ''The development of the monetary and financial system of the East African currency area 1950 to 1964'' in 1966. He began teaching at the

University of Manitoba The University of Manitoba (U of M, UManitoba, or UM) is a public research university in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Founded in 1877, it is the first university of Western Canada. Both by total student enrolment and campus area, the University of ...

in 1977. Over the course of his career, Loxley was elected a fellow of the

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, received the Distinguished Academic Award from the

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in 2008, followed by the Progressive Economists' Forum's 2008 Galbraith Prize in Economics and Social Justice. In 2019, the Errol Black Chair in Labour Issues at the Manitoba office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives honoured Loxley at the eighth Errol Black Chair Fund Raiser. Loxley died on 28 July 2020, aged 77.

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