[1][2][3][4] Don Patinkin was born January 8, 1922, in Chicago, to a family of Jewish emigrants from Poland.
He resigned due to the poor state of the university's finances and was succeeded by Amnon Pazy.
His monograph Money, Interest, and Prices (1956) was for many years one of the most widely used advanced references on monetary economics.
[8] Huw Dixon believes that: "Money, Interest and Prices is perhaps as great in its vision as Keynes' General Theory.
Don Patinkin states his theory of the labour market and corresponding notion of the full employment equilibrium in just three pages of Money, Interest and Prices (in the 1965 edn.