Abraham Rotstein

Abraham Rotstein
Born(1929-04-10)April 10, 1929
Montreal, Canada
DiedApril 27, 2015(2015-04-27) (aged 86)
Toronto, Canada
Academic background
EducationUniversity of Toronto
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Toronto

Abraham Rotstein (10 April 1929 – 27 April 2015) was a Canadian economist who was a professor of economics at the University of Toronto. He was a fellow of Massey College. He is best known as a co-founder of the Committee for an Independent Canada. He received his doctorate from the University of Toronto in 1967 for the thesis Fur Trade and Empire: An Institutional Analysis. He was a student of Karl Polanyi.

Rotstein was married for much of his life to Diane, with whom he had two children. After his retirement from the University of Toronto, he came out as gay.

Publications

Articles and addresses

  • Rotstein, Abraham. "Foreign Ownership of Industry: A New Canadian Approach." The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs , Vol. 58, No. 231 (July 1968): 260–268. doi:10.1080/00358536808452754
  • Rotstein, Abraham. "Karl Polanyi's Concept of NonMarket Trade," The Journal of Economic History, Vol. XXX, March 1970, pp. 117–26
  • Rotstein, Abraham. "Canada: The New Nationalism." Foreign Affairs, No. 55 (October 1976): 97–118.
  • Rotstein, Abraham. "Is There a Canadian Nationalism?" In Goals for Canada: Walter L. Gordon Lecture Series, 1977–78. Toronto: Canada Studies Foundation, 1978.
  • Rotstein, Abraham. "Is There an English-Canadian Nationalism?" Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 13, No. 2 (May 1978): 109–118. ISSN 0021-9495
  • Rotstein, Abraham. "Innis: The Alchemy of Fur and Wheat "Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d'études canadiennes, Volume 12, Number 5, Winter 1977, pp. 6–31

Books

  • Rotstein, Abraham. Beyond Industrial Growth. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1976 ISBN 978-0-8020-6286-4
    • Review, Canadian Public Policy, Spring, 1978, vol. 4, no. 2, p. 271–272
    • Review, Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, Jul., 1977, vol. 6, no. 4, p. 487–488
  • Rotstein, Abraham, and Gary Lax. Getting It Back: A Program for Canadian Independence. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1974. ISBN 978-0-7720-0694-3
  • Rotstein, Abraham. The Precarious Homestead; Essays on Economics, Technology and Nationalism. Toronto: New Press, 1973. ISBN 978-0-88770-711-7
  • Rotstein, Abraham, and Gary Lax. Independence: the Canadian Challenge. Toronto: Committee for an Independent Canada, 1972. ISBN 978-0-7710-7746-3
  • Abraham Rotstein. The Prospect of Change: Proposals for Canada's Future. McGraw-Hill, 1965. OCLC 5778078
    • Reviewed by J R Mallory; International Journal, Autumn, 1965, vol. 20, no. 4, p. 548–549

References

  1. ↑ The Canadian Who's who. University of Toronto Press. 1986. ISBN 9780802046321.
  2. ↑ "U of T : Economics : Abraham Rotstein". utoronto.ca.
  3. ↑ Fur Trade and Empire: An Institutional Analysis / Abraham Rotstein.. --. OCLC 224239930.
  4. ↑ "Abraham Rotstein a skeptical economist who made sense: Walkom". thestar.com. 29 April 2015.
  5. 1 2 "Abraham Rotstein: Educator led ‘nationalism on the left’". The Globe and Mail, May 17, 2015.
  6. ↑ Beyond industrial growth. OCLC 002091541.
  7. ↑ Getting it back : a program for Canadian independence. OCLC 986072.
  8. ↑ The precarious homestead; essays on economics, technology and nationalism. OCLC 000781769.
  9. ↑ Independence: the Canadian challenge. OCLC 521354.
  10. ↑ The prospect of change: proposals for Canada's future. OCLC 5778078.
  11. ↑ JSTOR