Lorie Tarshis
Lorie Tarshis | |
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| Born | March 22, 1911 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Died | 4 October 1993 (aged 82) Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Known for | first American university economics textbook of Keynesian economics |
| Academic background | |
| Education | |
| Thesis | The Determinants of Labor Income (1939) |
| Doctoral advisor | John Maynard Keynes |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Tufts University Stanford University University of Toronto Scarborough |
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, the 1947 Elements of Economics. The work swiftly lost popularity after it was charged with excessive sympathy to communism by McCarthyist activists. Instead, the 1948 Economics by Paul Samuelson brought the Keynesian Revolution to the United States.