Education
University of Toronto.
University of Toronto.
He was a fellow of Massey College. 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.
The Precarious Homestead. Essays on Economics, Technology and Nationalism.