BIO

Lars Osberg is the McCulloch Professor of Economics of Dalhousie University. His major fields of research interest are the extent and causes of poverty and economic inequality, with particular emphasis in recent years on social policy, social cohesion, and the implications of unemployment and structural change in labor markets. Osberg is the author of numerous refereed articles, book chapters, reviews, reports, and other publications. His first book was Economic Inequality in Canada (Butterworths 1981), and the most recent is The Economic Implications of Social Cohesion (University of Toronto Press 2003). There have been 10 others, including Vanishing Jobs: Canada's Changing Workplaces, with F. Wien and J. Grude (J. Lorimer 1995), The Unemployment Crisis: All for Naught, with B. MacLean (McGill-Queen’s University Press 1996), and Hard Money, Hard Times, with P. Fortin (J. Lorimer 1998). Osberg currently is review editor for the Review of Income and Wealth and is a past president of the Canadian Economics Association. He received his undergraduate education at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, and the London School of Economics and Political Science, and earned his Ph.D. in economics from Yale University.