1922Born in Chicago, Illinois.193343Received Hebrew education at Chicago Yeshiva (Talmudic Academy).1943B.A., University of Chicago.1945M.A., University of Chicago1946First published article, Mercantilism and the Readmission of the Jews to England,Jewish Social Studies 8.194648Held various teaching positions, University of Chicago, rising to Assistant Professor of Economics.1947Completed University of Chicago Ph. D. thesis, On the Consistency of Economic Models: A Theory of Involuntary Unemployment.194849Associate Professor, University of Illinois.1949Emigrated to Israel.194952Professor, Hebrew University in Jerusalem.1956Publication of Money, Interest, and Prices: An Integration of Monetary and Value Theory (University of Chicago Press).195672Director of Research, Maurice Falk Institute for Economic Research in Israel.195767Member, Bank of Israel Advisory Council.1959Publication of The Israel Economy: The First Decade, by the Maurice Falk Institute for Economic Research in Israel .1959Awarded Rothschild Prize (social sciences).196064Member, National Council for Research and Development, Israel.196162Visiting Professor, University of California at Berkeley.1965Second edition of Money, Interest and Prices published.1968Visiting Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).1970Awarded Israel Prize (social sciences).197075Member, Council for Higher Education, Israel.1972Visiting Professor, University of Chicago.197374Chairman, Sub-committee on the Government Budget, Israel's Emergency Economic Advisory Council.197379Visiting Professor, Western Ontario (annual half-term visits).1974President, Econometric Society.1975Named honorary member of the American Economic Association.1976President, Israel Economic Association.1976Publication of Keynes' Monetary Thought: A Study of Its Development (University of Chicago Press).197779Visiting Professor, University of Chicago.1981Publication by Duke University Press of Essays On and In the Chicago Tradition.198182Visiting Professor, Columbia University (fall semesters).1982Publication by Duke University Press of Anticipations of the General Theory? and Other Essays on Keynes.198386President, Hebrew University.198789Visiting Professor, UCLA.1989Publication of abridged version of the second edition of Money, Interest, and Prices, with lengthy new introduction.199294Visiting Professor, New Economic School, Moscow, Russia (fall semesters).1995Died in August at age 73.From the guide to the Don Patinkin Papers, 1870-1995, (Duke University. David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library)