This episode of Progressive Political Economy features Jim Stanford, Economist and Director of the Centre for Future. An active researcher and commentator on Canadian economic and fiscal policy, Stanford identifies the shortcomings of the federal government in combatting the cost of living crisis, while pointing to promising progresssive solutions at the provincial level.
Reflecting on how the Covid-19 pandemic impacted Canadian workers, Stanford also talks through the ways organized labour is pushing back to support the working-class and deliver material gains to ordinary Canadians amid a worsening affordability crisis.
The Broadbent Institute and Perspectives Journal have launched Progressive Political Economy: a new video series that spotlights progressive economics and political ideas that push for a just and equal society.
Through interviews with Canada’s leading progressive economic thinkers, we lay out alternative approaches to orthodox economic thinking that have lent today’s inequalities and injustices. From broadly envisioned industrial strategy in the fight against climate change to episodic economic phenomena like sellers’ inflation felt by all during the COVID-19 Pandemic, the Progressive Political Economy series brings forward debates and inquiry on today’s major issues while being grounded in working-class, social democratic values. Valuing people over profits, decommodification, and a political economy that works for the 99%, the ideas shared in this Progressive Political Economy series are a much needed counterweight to Canada’s business-backed economic discourse.
