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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 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] 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]
Abraham Rotstein was born in Montreal in 1929 and completed his BA at McGill in 1949. In 1967, he earned his PhD in our predecessor department, the Department of Political Economy. In between, he did graduate work at the University of Chicago and studied with Karl Polanyi at Columbia; he co-authored one of Polanyi’s last books, Dahomey and the Slave Trade: An Analysis of an Archaic Economy. He became a professor
at the University of Toronto, and long after the department split, he retired from the Department of Economics. He remained active as a scholar and teacher.
He was a senior fellow at Massey College, where he ran the journalism fellows program. For many years, he also served as managing editor of the Canadian Forum.
Rotstein was a prominent contributor to the distinctive field of Canadian Political Economy. He published The Precarious Homestead, and many other books and essays in a tradition inspired not only by Polanyi but also most importantly by Harold Innis. Not coincidentally, he was a co-founder of the Committee for an Independent Canada.
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