Nationality: Canadian
Affiliation: University of Waterloo
Student Status: Student
Level of Education: Ph.D.
Field of Study: Economics
Joined: April 2, 2020
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Dustin Fergusson-Vaux
CA
Member: Financial Stability, Philosophy of Economics, Economic History, Gender and Economics, Latin America, Urban and Regional Economics, Core, States and Markets, Behavior and Society, Finance, Law, and Economics, Complexity Economics, Economics of Innovation, Inequality, Sustainability, Economic Development
Organizer: History of Economic Thought
Working groups
- History of Economic Thought
- Financial Stability
- Philosophy of Economics
- Economic History
- Gender and Economics
- Latin America
- Urban and Regional Economics
- Core
- States and Markets
- Behavior and Society
- Finance, Law, and Economics
- Complexity Economics
- Economics of Innovation
- Inequality
- Sustainability
- Economic Development
Research Interests
- Alternative Development Paths
- Applied Econometrics
- Assumptions of Economic Theory
- Austerity
- Budget Deficits
- Central Banking
- Classical Political Economy
- Climate Finance
- Commodity prices
- Commons
- Culture and Norms
- Currency Hierarchy
- Demographics
- Development Finance
- Economic Geography
- Economic History
- Economics in public policy debate
- Fiscal Policy
- Foreign Aid
- Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
- Free Trade Agreements
- Gender and Economics
- Global Economic Transformation
- Global South
- Global Value Chains
- Governance
- History of Economic Thought
- Inflation
- Institutional Economics
- Job Guarantee
- Macroeconomics
- Migration
- Monetary Policy
- Narrative Economics
- Ontology of Economics
- Political Economy
- Positive vs. normative economics
- Public Policy
- Race and Economics
- Uncertainty
- Value
About
I am a doctoral candidate and novitiate political economist in the Department of Political Science at the University of Waterloo. Before pursuing the life of a scholar-educator, I worked in the Canadian live events industry as a production and operations specialist. My work is driven by conviction that fundamentally inclusive, equitable, and sustainable forms of economy are prerequisite for a hospitable future.Â
About my research
My research is situated at the intersection of political economy, public policy, and interdisciplinary studies and aims to combine problem-oriented, praxis-driven emancipatory perspectives for mobilizing critical policy research in an age of democratic and climate breakdown. My published and forthcoming peer review research deals with the past, present and future of the Canada’s multifaceted relationship to the Caribbean Community and the structural foundations of peripheral state autonomy in the global US-dollar system. My doctoral research examines the battery of drivers (ideas, interests, and institutions) behind the rise of epistemically credit policy regimes in post-war Canada. Through my doctorate I seek a clearer understanding of how the state-finance nexus is managed in conjunction with coalitional politics endemic to modern representative democracies.Â