Profile: Combining Economics and Social Justice
The Centre for Future Work’s Director Dr. Jim Stanford was recently profiled in a feature article published in In The Black, the journal of CPA Australia (the professional body for certified accountants in Australia). The profile, by journalist Johanna Leggatt, discusses the history of the Centre for Future Work, and Stanford’s philosophy of using popular economic knowledge to strengthen movements for social change and workers’ rights.
We are pleased to reprint (download below), with kind permission from In the Black, this profile, titled ‘The People’s Economist‘. Many thanks to the journal and to Ms. Leggatt for the generous article!
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