Marjorie Griffin Cohen

Marjorie Griffin Cohen is a political economist who is professor of Political Science and Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University. She is an activist who writes on public policy and economics with special emphasis on issues concerning labour, women, energy, and the Canadian economy. She has been the principle investigator of a five year SSHRC Community-University Research Alliance Grant (CURA). This project (called the Economic Security Project) brings together 22 community-based researchers, 22 researchers from universities in B.C. and many students in the study of the impact of government policies on vulnerable populations. Its most significant work is to try to establish new public policy that would meet the economic security needs of this population. Her most recent book is Public Policy for Women (University of Toronto Press, 2009). Other recent publications include Remapping Gender in the New Global Order (London & New York: Routledge 2007), Governing Under Stress: Middle Powers and the Challenge of Globalization (London: ZED, 2004), Training the Excluded for Work: Access and Equity for Women, Immigrants, First Nations, Youth and People with Low Income (UBC Press, 2003), and Global Turbulence: Social Activists and State Responses to Globalization (Ashgate, 2003).

Appearing at these conference event(s):

• Nov. 21, 2009 - Economic Security, The Problem of Civilization, and Mindful Economics

Parkland Conferences participated in:

Parkland Fall Conference 2009

Multimedia:

2009-11-21 - Marjorie Griffin Cohen - ‘Spending on Capital or People?’

2009-11-21 - Q&A with Magnuson, Cohen, and Jensen

Q&A with Joel Magnuson, Derrick Jensen and Marjorie Griffin Cohen on 11-21-2009 after their Parkland 2009 Fall Conference plenary session.

More info:

http://www.sfu.ca/~mcohen/