Abraham Rotstein


Abraham Rotstein 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 : 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 : 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 : 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