Jeff Rubin

Jeff Rubin is the former chief economist at CIBC World Markets, a former senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, and an award-winning author.

3 Posts

What Divides Us Is Class, Not Race

What we need are policies—including trade and immigration policies—that help us carve up the economic pie in a way that sees all workers get their fair share, no matter what their ethnicity.

Jeff Rubin

24 Oct 2020 · 10 min read

Will Workers' Wages Ever Go Up Again?

With the threat of plant closures hanging over negotiations like the sword of Damocles, union priorities have shifted from bargaining for wage increases to bargaining for job and pension security.

Jeff Rubin

25 Sep 2020 · 9 min read

PODCAST 113: Jeff Rubin on the Plight of Today’s Middle-Class ‘Expendables’

Quillette Editor Jonathan Kay talks to economist-turned-author Jeff Rubin about his new book, The Expendables: How the Middle Class Got Screwed By Globalization—and the devastating consequences of globalization that many progressive thinkers seem reluctant to talk about.

Quillette / Jonathan Kay / Jeff Rubin

25 Sep 2020 · 1 min read