Jim Stanford

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 New School for Social Research. He is author of a column for the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail. In 2016 Stanford relocated to Australia, where he is the founding director of the Centre for the Future of Work, a non-partisan research organization funded by the public policy think tanks, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and The Australia Institute. He is also a regular contributor on economics to Huffington Post Australia.

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 Regulate Work and Income  (1980)