What’s New at the PEF
The Progressive Economics Forum aims to promote the development of a progressive economics community in Canada. The PEF brings together over 125 progressive economists, working in universities, the labour movement, and activist research organizations. On this site, you’ll learn more about our network, our research and education products, and ways to contribute to its growth and success through membership, meetings and conferences, and our annual student essay contest.
This is also the home of Relentlessly Progressive Economics, the PEF’s blog, a source of real-time commentary on Canadian economic policy issues from some of your favourite progressive economists. If you want to get directly to the blog, you can bookmark http://progressive-economics.ca/relentless
The RSS feed for the blog is: http://progressive-economics.ca/feed
2011 PEF ESSAY CONTEST WINNERS
Graduate Winner ($1,000 Prize): Jordan Brennan, York University, “Has Free Trade Fulfilled its Promise in Canada? Contesting a “Sacred Tenet” of Globalization Theory”
Graduate Honourable Mention: Rosita Yi Ki Kwan, Dalhousie University, “Alberta Welfare Reform and Employment Outcomes of Welfare Recipients”
Undergraduate Winner ($500 Prize): Yilang (Kent) Feng, University of Manitoba, “The Subtle Transformation of Contemporary China – A Study of Chinese Political Economy in the Post-Crisis World”
Undergraduate Honourable Mentions:
Gregory W. Johnsen, Carleton University, “Balancing act: Negotiating global needs and national sovereignty under the Bretton Woods regime”
Laura Husak, University of Manitoba, “The Food Crisis in Context: More than a Problem of Speculation”
Winners were chosen by a panel from the University of Manitoba: Ian Hudson, Fletcher Barager and Robert Chernomas.
2011 Canadian Economics Association meetings
The PEF is active each year at the annual meetings of the Canadian Economics Association (and we give special thanks to the CEA for its financial support of our panels). Some of the papers from the conference are available for download.
2010 John Kenneth Galbraith Prize in Economics
The winner of the 2010 Galbraith Prize (awarded every two years for work combining economic analysis with a commitment to social justice) is John Loxley of the University of Manitoba. John presented his Galbraith lecture at the 2010 Canadian Economics Association meetings in Quebec City. His lecture, Reflections on Change and Continuity at the IMF, was delivered to a full house.
