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Jim Stanford
About
Jim Stanford is the Harold Innis Industry Professor in Economics at McMaster University, in Hamilton, Ontario, as well as Economist and Director of the Centre for Future Work, a labour economics think tank based in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Jim served for over 20 years as Economist and Director of Policy with Unifor, Canada’s largest private-sector trade union (formerly the Canadian Auto Workers). He is quoted frequently in the print and broadcast media, and contributes a regular column in the Toronto Star. Jim is the author of Economics for Everyone: A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism (second edition published by Pluto Books in 2015), which has been published in six languages.
Jim served for over 20 years as Economist and Director of Policy with Unifor, Canada’s largest private-sector trade union (formerly the Canadian Auto Workers). He is quoted frequently in the print and broadcast media, and contributes a regular column in the Toronto Star. Jim is the author of Economics for Everyone: A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism (second edition published by Pluto Books in 2015), which has been published in six languages.
Affiliation: McMaster University
Faculty, Department: Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Economics
Position: Harold Innis Industry Professor