Vincent Bladen

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|birth_date = {{Birth date|1900|8|14|df=y}}

|birth_place = Stoke-on-Trent, England

|birth_name = Vincent Wheeler Bladen

|death_date = {{Death date and age|1981|11|26|1900|8|14|df=y}}

|death_place = Toronto, Ontario

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|occupation = economist and academic

|education = Balliol College, Oxford

|awards = Order of Canada

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Vincent Wheeler Bladen, {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|OC}} (14 August 1900 – 26 November 1981) was a British-Canadian economist.

Upon completing his degree at Balliol College, Oxford, Bladen began teaching at University of Toronto in September 1921,{{cite journal |last1=Dales |first1=John H. |title=In Memoriam: Vincent Wheeler Bladen, 1900-81 |journal=The Canadian Journal of Economics |date=May 1982 |volume=15 |issue=2 |pages=327–330 |jstor=134784}}{{cite encyclopedia |last=Drummond |first=Ian M. |title=Vincent Wheeler Bladen |encyclopedia=The Canadian Encyclopedia |date=13 December 2013 |publisher=Historica Canada |edition=online |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/vincent-wheeler-bladen}} where he later served as a dean of the Faculty of Arts from 1959. In 1960, he was appointed Chairman of the Royal Commission on the Automotive Industry which helped to create the Canadian-American Automotive Agreement. Bladen retired from teaching in 1969,{{cite news |title=Fonds 1066 - Vincent Wheeler Bladen fonds |url=https://discoverarchives.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/vincent-wheeler-bladen-fonds |access-date=27 October 2020 |publisher=University of Toronto}} but continued to give lectures.{{cite news |last1=Loek |first1=Dick |title=At 81, Vincent Bladen, who taught for 60 years at the U of T, lectures now for taxi money at Scarborough College. |url=https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMDC-TSPA_0125451F&R=DC-TSPA_0125451F |access-date=28 October 2020 |work=Toronto Star |agency=Toronto Public Library |date=1981}}

Bladen was the founding editor of the Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science. Several editions of Bladen's An Introduction to Political Economy were published during his lifetime.{{cite journal |last1=Woolbert |first1=Robert Gale |title=An Introduction to Political Economy By V. W. Bladen |journal=Foreign Affairs |date=October 1942 |volume=21 |issue=October 1942 |url=https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/1942-10-01/introduction-political-economy}}{{cite journal |last1=Wootton |first1=Barbara |title=An Introduction to Political Economy . By V. W. Bladen . 1941 . ( University of Toronto Press . 300 pp. $2.25.) |journal=International Affairs Review Supplement |date=December 1941 |volume=19 |issue=6–7 |doi=10.2307/3025946|jstor=3025946 }}{{cite journal |last1=Spry |first1=Irene M. |title=An Introduction to Political Economy by V. W. Bladen (review) |journal=The Canadian Historical Review |date=June 1957 |volume=38 |issue=2 |pages=156–157 |doi=10.3138/chr-038-04-br36 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/623252/|url-access=subscription }} In 1962, he edited Canadian Population and Northern Colonization.{{cite journal |title=Books and Publications Received |journal= Population Studies|date=1962 |volume=16 |issue=2 |page=203 |doi=10.1080/00324728.1962.10414878}}{{cite journal |last1=Martin |first1=Yves |title=V. W. BLADEN, ed., Canadian Population and Northern Colonization -La population canadienne et la colonisation du Grand Nord |journal=Recherches Sociographiques |date=1963 |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=123–124 |doi=10.7202/055175ar|doi-access=free }} In 1974, Bladen's book From Adam Smith to Maynard Keynes : the heritage of political economy was published.{{cite journal |last1=McIvor |first1=R. Craig |title=From Adam Smith to Maynard Keynes: The Heritage of Political Economy by V.W. Bladen (review) |journal=The Canadian Historical Review |date=June 1976 |volume=57 |issue=2 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/570256}} His memoirs, Bladen on Bladen, were published in 1978.{{cite journal |last1=Ward |first1=Norman |title=Bladen on Bladen: Memoirs of a Political Economist by Vincent Bladen (review) |journal=The Canadian Historical Review |date=June 1980 |volume=61 |issue=2 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/570698}}

In 1976, Bladen was made an Officer of the Order of Canada, Canada's highest civilian honor. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws from Carleton University in 1966 and York University in 1975.

The Vincent W. Bladen Library at the University of Toronto Scarborough is named in his honour.