Colleges Ontario 2009 Conference

Jim Stanford is an economist with the Canadian Auto Workers, Canada’s largest private-sector trade union. He received his PhD in Economics in 1995 from the New School for Social Research in New York, and also holds economics degrees from Cambridge University and the University of Calgary.

Jim is the author of Paper Boom (published in 1999) and author of Economics for Everyone (Pluto Press and Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2008). In 2007, he was appointed vice-chair of the Ontario Manufacturing Council.

Jim writes a regular economics column for the Globe and Mail and lives in Toronto with his partner and two daughters.

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