Lorie Tarshis

Lorie Tarshis (22 March 1911 – 4 October 1993) was a Canadian economist who taught mostly at Stanford University. He is credited with writing the first introductory textbook that brought Keynesian thinking into American university classrooms, Instead, the 1948 Economics by Paul Samuelson brought the Keynesian Revolution to the United States.

Education and career Tarshis was born in Toronto and received a bachelor of commerce from the University of Toronto and master's and doctoral degrees in economics from Trinity College, Cambridge under the tutelage of John Maynard Keynes.

Tarshis came to the United States in 1936 as an instructor at Tufts University near Boston until 1939. He worked for the War Production Board in World War II and then became an operations analyst for the United States Army Air Forces at bomber commands in Libya, Tunisia and Italy. He returned to Tufts University in 1942 and continued teaching there until 1946.

Tarshis began teaching at Stanford in 1946, rising from assistant to associate to full professor.

Death He died in a Toronto nursing home of Parkinson's disease at the age of 82.

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