Lars Osberg (PhD. Yale) has been a member of the Economics Department at Dalhousie University (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) since 1977. He also worked for a brief period at the University of Western Ontario. He is well known internationally for his contributions in the field of economics. His major research interests are the measurement and determinants of inequality, social exclusion and poverty, measurement of economic well-being, leisure co-ordination and economic well-being, time use and economic development, economic insecurity. Books The Age of Increasing Inequality James Lorimer Publishers, Toronto – 2018 The Economic Implications of Social Cohesion (edited) University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2003, 249 pages Principles of Microeconomics: Fourth Edition – 2012 McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Toronto - joint with Frank/Bernanke/Cross/MacLean Principles of Macroeconomics: Fourth Edition – 2012 McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Toronto - joint with Frank/Bernanke/Cross/MacLean Hard Money, Hard Times (edited with P. Fortin) James Lorimer Publishers, Toronto, Ontario, 1998, 202 pages. The Unemployment Crisis: All for Naught (edited with B. MacLean) McGill/Queen's University Press (1996) 251 pages. Unnecessary Debts, (edited with P. Fortin), (ed.), James Lorimer Publishers, Toronto, Ontario, 1996, 200 pages. Vanishing Jobs: Canada's Changing Workplaces (with F. Wien and J. Grude), James Lorimer Publishers, Toronto, Ontario (1995) 215 pages. A Social Charter for Canada (edited with S. Phipps) C.D. Howe Institute, Toronto, Ontario, February (1992). Economic Inequality and Poverty: International Perspectives (editor) M.E. Sharpe Ltd. Armonk, New York (1991), 257 pages. The Information Economy: the Implications of Unbalanced Growth (with W. Baumol & E.N. Wolff) Institute for Research on Public Policy (1989), 114 pages. Economic Inequality in the United States, M.E. Sharpe Ltd., Armonk, New York (1984), 288 pages. Economic Inequality in Canada, Butterworth Publishing Co., Toronto, Ontario (1981), 236 pages. Refereed journal articles "On the limitations of some current usages of the Gini Index" Review of Income and Wealth, Series 63, No. 3, September 2017, Pages 574 to 584, (published online 28 September 2016 DOI: 10.1111/roiw.12256) "Unequal Opportunities and Public Policy: The Impact of Parental Disability Benefits on Child Post-Secondary Attendance" with Kelly Chen and Shelley Phipps revise and resubmit, Canadian Journal of Economics "Healing and/or Breaking? The Mental Health Implications of Repeated Economic Insecurity" with Barry Watson Social Science and Medicine Volume 188, September 2017, Pages 119-127 "Is It Vulnerability or Economic Insecurity that matters for Health?" with Nick Rohde, Prasada Rao and K.K. Tang Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 2017, 134: 307-319 "The Self-Reinforcing Dynamics of