The 2018 PEF Student Essay Contest is open! The deadline for submitting essays is quickly approaching: April 30, 2018. Please use this submission form (fiche d’inscription concours). You can download a poster (English , Francais) here — please help us out and post one in your department. 2018 PEF ESSAY
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The Progressive Economics Forum: Book review: Social policy in Canada (second edition)
Oxford University Press has recently released the second edition of Social Policy in Canada, co-authored by the father-daughter duo of Ernie Lightman and Naomi Lightman. I recommend this book as an excellent resource for students of social policy. It will be useful for classroom instruction, while also being a handy
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Fiscal situation of Canada’s ‘oil rich’ provinces
I’ve just written a blog post about the fiscal situation of Canada’s ‘oil rich’ provinces (i.e., Alberta, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland and Labrador). It consists of a summary of key points raised at a PEF-sponsored panel at this year’s Annual Conference of the Canadian Economics Association. Points raised in the blog
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: 2017 PEF Student Essay Contest is Open!
The 2017 PEF Student Essay Contest is officially open! The deadline for submitting essays is May 02, 2017. Please use this submission form (fiche d’inscription concours). You can download a poster (English, Français) here — please help us out and post one in your department. 2017 PEF ESSAY CONTEST RULES
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Winner of the 2016 Galbraith Prize
The Progressive Economics Forum is pleased to announce Marjorie Griffith Cohen as the winner of the 2016 Galbraith Prize in Economics. Our selection committee included past winner Lars Osberg, Joan McFarland (St. Thomas University), Angella MacEwan (CLC), Fletcher Baragar (Manitoba) and David Pringle (PEF), and was chaired by Marc Lee (CCPA-BC). Marjorie has accepted the […]
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: PEF Summer School 2016
If you are in Ottawa or close by, and are interested in the ideas and debates that are shaping today’s economy, then we have a summer school for you. PEF Summer School 2016: Expanding Economic Thinking University of Ottawa, Ottawa Thursday June 2, 2016 8:00am-5:15pm Learn in a day what you may have missed from […]
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: 2016 PEF Student Essay Contest: Deadline Extended
The 2016 Student Essay Contest deadline has been extended to Monday, May 9. Please use this submission form. You can download a poster (English, French) here — please help us out and circulate the word to students. ====================== 2016 PEF ESSAY CONTEST RULES Deadline: 9 May, 2016 All entrants receive a complimentary 1-year membership in […]
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: 2016 PEF Student Essay Contest is Open!
Please see the essay contest rules (bilingual) and use this submission form. You can download a poster (English, French) here — please help us out and post one in your department. Deadline for submissions is May 2, 2016.
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: PEF 2015 Student Essay Competition
The 2015 competition is now open for submissions. Deadline 04 May 2015. Please help us get the word out! Download a poster here. 2015 PEF ESSAY CONTEST RULES ELIGIBILE ENTRANTS ➢ Open to all Canadian students, studying in Canada and abroad, as well as international students presently studying in Canada.
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: PEF Events at This Year’s Annual Conference of the CEA
For the 15th consecutive year, the Progressive Economics Forum (PEF) will be sponsoring events at the Annual Conference of the Canadian Economics Association (which takes place this month in Vancouver). PEF events will take place this Friday and Saturday; details pertaining to all PEF events can be found at this
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Winner of the 2014 Galbraith Prize
The Progressive Economics Forum is pleased to announce Lars Osberg as the Winner of the 2014 Galbraith Prize in Economics. Our selection committee included past winners Mel Watkins, John Loxley and Mike McCracken, plus Lana Payne and Linda McQuaig. Lars has accepted the Prize and will deliver the Galbraith Lecture
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Economists Against Austerity
Statement by 70 Canadian Economists Against Austerity We, the undersigned, strongly urge the federal government to stop implementing fiscal austerity measures just to achieve its political goal of budgetary balance by 2015. Since the mid-1990s, we have witnessed an era during which, under the influence of the same economists who
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: 2014 Essay Contest
The details of the Progressive Economics Forum’s 2014 Student Essay Contest are now online. Please note the submission deadline of May 5.
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Call for Nominations: Galbraith Prize in Economics 2014
The PEF’s biannual John Kenneth Galbraith Prize in Economics will be awarded this summer for the fourth time. This is a call for nominations from PEF members in good standing. If you would like to nominate someone please email me at galbraith@progressive-economics.ca with a couple paragraphs to support your nomination (300 words
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: PEF Session at the House of Commons Finance Committee
The Progressive Economics Forum (PEF) normally hosts sessions at the Canadian Economics Association’s annual conference. But the House of Commons finance committee threw most of the union economists testifying in its pre-budget hearings onto the same panel on November 21. I began my testimony as follows: In addition to my
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: PEF Events in Montreal
As Erin alludes to in an earlier post, the PEF organized events at this year’s Annual Conference of the Canadian Economics Association (CEA) in Montreal (May 30 – June 2). All told, the PEF organized (or co-organized) eight panels/sessions, in addition to holding its annual general meeting, announcing the winners
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: PEF Keynote: Neoliberalism in Quebec
The PEF marked our 15th anniversary at last weekend’s Canadian Economics Association conference in Montreal. Guillaume Hébert from the Institut de Recherche et d’Informations Socio-économiques (IRIS) delivered the following keynote address. Thanks very much to Mathieu Dufour for translating it into English. **** Thank you very much for inviting me
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: 2013 Essay Contest
2013 may be your lucky year! The details of this year’s PEF student essay contest are now online. Please note the May 3 deadline and put up this poster to promote the contest.
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: PEF Events at Annual Conference of the CEA
For the 15th consecutive year, the Progressive Economics Forum (PEF) is sponsoring its own events at the Annual Conference of the Canadian Economics Association (CEA). This year’s Annual Conference of the CEA is taking place at HEC Montréal. PEF events will take place in the May 31 – June 2
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: PEF Conference, June 8-9
The Progressive Economics Forum will be occupying the Calgary School (also Jim’s and my alma mater) on June 8 and 9 at the annual Canadian Economics Association conference. Our schedule of sessions is now available.
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