Lorie Tarshis
Lorie Tarshis | |
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| Born | 22 March 1911 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Died | 4 October 1993 (aged 82) Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
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| Occupation(s) | economist, professor |
| Known for | first American university economics textbook of Keynesian economics |
Lorie Tarshis (22 March 1911 – 4 October 1993) was a
Early life and education
Tarshis was born in Toronto and received a bachelor's degree from the University of Toronto and master's and doctoral degrees in economics from Trinity College, Cambridge.[4]
Career
Private sector
He came to the United States in 1936 as an instructor at
Teaching
He began teaching at Stanford in 1946, rising from assistant to associate to full professor.[4]
Tarshis headed the department of economics at Stanford intermittently from 1950 to 1970. He then joined the faculty of Scarborough College, part of the University of Toronto system, and remained there until 1978 as a professor of economics. Until 1988 he was a professor and acting chairman of the department of economics at Glendon College, York University in Ontario. In his later years at Glendon College, he taught Intermediate Macroeconomics from his 1984 book, World Economy in Crisis: Unemployment, Inflation and International Debt.[4]
McCarthyite attack
In The most recent textbook witch-hunt provides an edifying example. In August 1947, on the letterhead of an organization calling itself the National Economic Council, Inc., a man named Merwin K. Hart wrote to every member of the boards of trustees of colleges using Elements of Economics, an economic text written by Professor Lorie Tarshis of Stanford University. An enclosed review denounced the book for its exposition of the doctrines of Lord Keynes and identified Keynseianism as a form of Marxism.
Hart's letter had an immediate effect. Organizations of small businessmen passed resolutions in his support. Trusettes and alumni wrote outraged letters to college presidents. Yet who was Merwin K. Hart? His record had been long known to students of the American proto-fascist demimonde...
Fortunately enough college presidents knew Hart's record to stand up courageously to the uproar... The American Economic Association eventually appointed a special committee to deal with the attacks on the Tarshis book and on other economic texts.[5]
Death
He died in a Toronto nursing home of Parkinson's disease at the age of 82. [1][4]
Selected bibliography
- Tarshis, Lorie (1959), "Factor inputs and international price comparisons", in ISBN 9780804705684.
- Tarshis, Lorie (1984), World Economy in Crisis: Unemployment, Inflation and International Debt, Toronto, Ontario: ISBN 0-88862-626-6.
References
- ^ a b Author of first U.S. college textbook on Keynesian economics dies, Stanford News Service, 11 October 1993, retrieved 2009-01-06
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ISBN 978-0-230-61920-3
- ^ Colander, David; Landreth, Harry (1998), "Political Influence on the Textbook Keynesian Revolution: God, Man, and Laurie (sic) Tarshis at Yale" (PDF), in O.F. Hamouda; B.B. Price (eds.), Keynesianism and the Keynesian Revolution in America: A Memorial Volume in Honour of Lorie Tarshis, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 59–72.
- ^ a b c d e "Dr. Lorie Tarshis, 82, Professor of Economics", The New York Times, 14 October 1993
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ISBN 9780233961972. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
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