Abraham Rotstein

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. 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