Abraham Rotstein Explained

Abraham Rotstein
Birth Date:	10 April 1929
Birth Place:	Montreal, Canada
Death Place:	Toronto, Canada
Institution:	University of Toronto
Alma Mater:	University 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.^{[1] [2]} 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.^[3] He was a student of Karl Polanyi.^[4]

Rotstein was married for much of his life to Diane, with whom he had two children.^[5] After his retirement from the University of Toronto, he came out as gay.^[5]

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.
• 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.
• 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 ^[6]
  • 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. ^[7]
• Rotstein, Abraham. The Precarious Homestead; Essays on Economics, Technology and Nationalism. Toronto: New Press, 1973. ^[8]
• Rotstein, Abraham, and Gary Lax. Independence: the Canadian Challenge. Toronto: Committee for an Independent Canada, 1972. ^[9]
• Abraham Rotstein. The Prospect of Change: Proposals for Canada's Future. McGraw-Hill, 1965. ^[10]
  • Reviewed by J R Mallory; International Journal, Autumn, 1965, vol. 20, no. 4, p. 548–549 ^[11]

Notes and References

1. Book: The Canadian Who's who. 1986. University of Toronto Press . 9780802046321.
2. Web site: U of T : Economics : Abraham Rotstein. utoronto.ca.
3. Book: Fur Trade and Empire: An Institutional Analysis / Abraham Rotstein.. --. worldcat.org. 224239930.
4. Web site: Abraham Rotstein a skeptical economist who made sense: Walkom. 29 April 2015. thestar.com.
5. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/abraham-rotstein-educator-led-nationalism-on-the-left/article24471848/ "Abraham Rotstein: Educator led ‘nationalism on the left’"
6. Book: Beyond industrial growth. worldcat.org. 002091541.
7. Book: Getting it back : a program for Canadian independence. worldcat.org. 986072.
8. Book: The precarious homestead; essays on economics, technology and nationalism.. worldcat.org. 000781769.
9. Book: Independence: the Canadian challenge.. worldcat.org. 521354.
10. Book: The prospect of change: proposals for Canada's future.. worldcat.org. 5778078.
11. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40199690 JSTOR