Avi J. Cohen is a Professor of Economics at York University and at the University of Toronto. He has a PhD from Stanford University; is a Life Fellow of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge; and is past Co-Chair of the Canadian Economics Association Education Committee.
Professor Cohen has over 30 years of experience teaching introductory economics, is an award-winning teacher, and is a 3M National Teaching Fellow. He is the author of the Study Guide accompanying the first eight editions of Michael Parkin’s and Robin Bade’s Economics: Canada in the Global Environment. He served for many years at York University as Dean’s Advisor on Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL), where he developed and ran do TEL, a faculty development program for instructors interested in transforming their face-to face courses to blended or fully online formats.
Professor Cohen has been President of the History of Economics Society, a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University, and has research interests in the history of economics, economic history, and economic education. He has published in Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Economic Education, History of Political Economy, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic History, and Explorations in Economic History, among other journals and books. Professor Cohen is co-author of the best-selling Study Guide that accompanied the first eight editions of Parkin/Bade’s Economics.
