Speakers and guests

Mark Anielski | Economist, Author and Educator

Economist, consultant, Adjunct Professor in both the School of Business, University of Alberta and the Bainbridge Island Graduate Institute and author of the "The Economics of Happiness: Building Genuine Wealth" Read more »

Robin Broad | Professor and Author

Professor of international development at American University and co-author of "Development Redefined: How the Market Met Its Match" Read more »

Peter Brown | Professor and Author

Professor in the School of Environment, the Department of Geography, and the Department of Natural Resource Sciences at McGill University and co-author of "Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy" Read more »

Dorval Brunelle | Professor and Author

Professor of sociology at the University of Quebec in Montreal and co-author of "From World Order to Global Disorder: States, Markets, and Dissent" Read more »

Marjorie Griffin Cohen | Professor

Economist and Professor, Political Science and Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University, and co-editor of Global Instability: Uncertainty and New Visions in Political Economy. Read more »

Sam Gindin | Writer, academic

Retired research director of the CAW and Packer Visitor in Social Justice in the Department of Political Science at York University, and author of "Global Capitalism and American Empire " Read more »

Ursula Huws |

Activist, author, professor and commentator on labor and technology issues since the 1970s. Her writings have appeared in the Socialist Register, Z Magazine, and the New Statesman. Read more »

Derrick Jensen | Activist, small farmer, philosopher and author

Activist, small farmer, bee-keeper, teacher, philosopher and author of Endgame: Volume I: The Problem of Civilization and Volume II: Resistance. Read more »

Joel Magnusson | Professor and Author

Professor of Economics in Portland, Oregon; a visiting fellow at the Ashcroft International Business School at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, England and author of Mindful Economics: How the US Economy Works, Why it Matters, and How it Could be Different. Read more »

Nathan Rao | Journalist and activist

Activist, journalist and supporter of the Socialist Project and author of Another Left is possible: The protests in France and the New Anti-Capitalist Party. Read more »

Judy Rebick | author, activist, publisher, television host

Judy Rebick is a long-time feminist and social justice activist living in Toronto who currently holds the CAW Sam Gindin Chair in Social Justice and Democracy at Ryerson University. Judy is a writer and was the founding publisher of rabble.ca. Her latest book is Transforming Power: From the Personal to the Political (Penguin 2009). Read more »

Jim Stanford | Economist, columnist, author

Jim Stanford is an Economist with the Canadian Auto Workers, Canada's largest private-sector trade union. He received his Ph.D. 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. Read more »

Brenda Spotton Visano | Professor and Author

Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration and the Department of Economics at York University and author of Financial Crises Socio-Economic Causes and Institutional Context. Read more »

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