John Hotson (1930 - 1996) was a Canadian economist at the University of Waterloo and co-founder of Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform.
Hotson graduated from Colorado College in 1952.
He was the chair of the economics department at the University of Waterloo. He was an editor of the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics.
Hotson co-founded the Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform in 1988.
Hotson retired in 1993. He was involved with The Hunger Project. He died on January 21, 1996.