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Jim Stanford
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. Jim is the author of Paper Boom (published in 1999) and Economics for Everyone (Pluto Press and Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2008). He writes a regular economics column for the Globe and Mail, and is a member of CBC TV's regular National News economics panel. He lives in Toronto with his partner and two daughters.
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