Jack Carr was born in Toronto in 1944 and graduated from the University of Toronto in 1965 before taking his PhD. at the University of Chicago in 1971. In 1968 he joined the department of Political Economy in the University of Toronto and became Associate Professor in 1973. Professor Carr is also a Research Associate of the Institute for Policy Analysis at the University of Toronto. During the 1975-76 academic year he was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Economics, University of California in Los Angeles.
Professor Carr's publications include: The Money Supply and the Rate of Inflation, a study prepared for the Prices and Incomes Commission in 1972; Cents and Nonsense (Holt, Rinehart and Winston), a book of popular essays on economic policy, and numerous contributions to scholarly journals.