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John Ridpath
Canadian historian (1936–2021)
For the American writer (1840–1900), see John Clark Ridpath.
John B. Ridpath (; 19 May 1936 – 23 March 2021)[1][2] was a Canadianintellectual historian.
He was an Objectivist and an associate professor of economics and intellectual history at York University in Toronto. He also taught courses at Duke University.[3]
Biography
Ridpath attended Toronto's Upper Canada College (Head Prefect, 1955) and then later the University of Toronto, from which he received both an undergraduate degree in Engineering and an MBA, while also setting Canadian national swimming records and captaining the University of Toronto swim team.
He obtained his doctorate in economics from the University of Virginia (1974), but his major work was in the area of intellectual history, where he emphasized the power of philosophical ideas in setting the course of history.
Despite receiving an award by the Ontario Council of