Abraham Rotstein (10 April 1929 – 27 April 2015) was a Canadian economist who was a professor of

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at the

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. He was a

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. He is best known as a co-founder of the

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. He received his doctorate from the

in 1967 for the thesis ''Fur Trade and Empire: An Institutional Analysis''. He was a student of

Karl Polanyi Karl Paul Polanyi (; hu, Polányi Károly ; 25 October 1886 – 23 April 1964),''Encyclopædia Britannica'' (Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. 2003) vol 9. p. 554 was an Austro-Hungarian economic anthropologist and politician, best known ...

. Rotstein was married for much of his life to Diane, with whom he had two children."Abraham Rotstein: Educator led ‘nationalism on the left’"
'' The Globe and Mail'', May 17, 2015. After his retirement from the University of Toronto, he came out as

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