Geoffrey Harcourt

Geoffrey Colin Harcourt AC (born June 27, 1931 in Melbourne ) is an Australian economist and economic historian.

Live and act

Geoff Harcourt was the son of Kenneth Kopel Harcourt and Marjorie Rahel Harcourt, b. Goose, born. He attended Malvern Grammar School and Wesley College in Melbourne. From 1951 he studied at the University of Melbourne , where he earned the Bachelor of Commerce (Honors) in 1954 and the Master of Commerce in 1956 . His master's thesis is entitled Pilot Survey of Savings in Melbourne. He went to Cambridge , where he was a student of Joan Robinson and Nicholas Kaldor and a Ph.D. promo advantage was. In 1958 he went to the University of Adelaide , where he worked as a Lecturer (1958–1962), Senior Lecturer (1963–1965), Reader (1965–1967) and Professor (1967–1985). In 1988 he retired there . From 1982 to 1998 he was a fellow at Jesus College at the University of Cambridge and lecturer in economics (1982–1990). In 1988 he received the title Doctor of Letters. From 1990 to 1998 he was a reader for the history of economic theory at Cambridge.

Harcourt works on post-Keynesianism and the history of economic theory, especially capital theory .

In 1955 he married Joan Margaret Bartrop, with whom he has two sons and two daughters. His hobbies are running (not jogging ), cycling , cricket , Australian football , reading and politics .

Works

• Geoffrey Colin Harcourt: A Two-Sector Model of the Distribution of Income and the Level of Employment in the Short Run. In: Economic Record. Volume 41, 1965, pp. 103-117
• Geoffrey Colin Harcourt, Peter H. Karmel and RH Wallace: Economic Activity. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1967.
• Geoffrey Colin Harcourt and Robert Henry Parker (Eds.): Readings in the Concept and Measurement of Income. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1969, ISBN 0-521-09591-3 ; 2nd edition: Allan, Oxford 1986, ISBN 0-86003-536-0
• Geoffrey Colin Harcourt and Neil F. Laing (Eds.): Capital and growth. Selected readings. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth 1971, ISBN 0-14-080269-X
• Geoffrey Colin Harcourt: Some Cambridge Controversies in the Theory of Capital. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1972, ISBN 0-521-08294-3 , ISBN 0-521-09672-3 .
• Geoffrey Colin Harcourt: Theoretical Controversy and Social Significance. An evaluation of the Cambridge controversies. University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands 1975, ISBN 0-85564-117-7 .
• Geoffrey Colin Harcourt (Ed.): The Microeconomic Foundations of Macroeconomics. Macmillan, London 1977, ISBN 0-333-21536-2 .
• Geoffrey Colin Harcourt (Author); Prue Kerr (Ed.): The Social Science Imperialists. Selected essays. Routledge and Kegan Paul, London 1982, ISBN 0-7100-9064-1 .
• Geoffrey Colin Harcourt (Ed.): Keynes and his Contemporaries. The Sixth and Centennial Keynes Seminar held in the University of Kent at Canterbury 1983. Macmillan, Basingstoke 1985, ISBN 0-333-34687-4
• Geoffrey Colin Harcourt (Author); Omar F. Hamouda (Ed.): Controversies in Political Economy, Selected Essays by GC Harcourt. Wheatsheaf Books Ltd., Brighton 1986, ISBN 0-7450-0105-X .
• Geoffrey Colin Harcourt (Author); Claudio Sardoni (Ed.): On Political Economists and Modern Political Economy. Selected Essays by GC Harcourt. Routledge, London 1992, ISBN 0-415-06158-X , ISBN 0-415-06159-8 .
• Geoffrey Colin Harcourt: Post-Keynesian Essays in Biography. Portraits of Twentieth Century Political Economists. Macmillan, Basingstoke 1993, ISBN 0-333-56955-5
• Geoffrey Colin Harcourt: Capitalism, Socialism and Post-Keynesianism. Selected Essays by GC Harcourt. Edward Elgar, Aldershot, Hants 1995, ISBN 1-85898-079-8 .
• Geoffrey Colin Harcourt and Peter A. Riach (Eds.): A “Second Edition” of The General Theory. 2 volumes, Routledge, London 1997, ISBN 0-415-08215-3 .
• Geoffrey Colin Harcourt: Selected Essays on Economic Policy. Palgrave, London 2001, ISBN 0-333-94632-4
• Geoffrey Colin Harcourt: 50 Years a Keynesian and Other Essays. Palgrave, Basingstoke [et al. a.] 2001, ISBN 0-333-94633-2
• Geoffrey Colin Harcourt and Prue Kerr (Eds.): Joan Robinson. Critical Assessments of Leading Economists. 5 volumes, Routledge, London 2002, ISBN 0-415-21742-3 .
• Geoffrey Colin Harcourt: The Structure of Post-Keynesian Economics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2006, ISBN 0-521-83387-6 , ISBN 978-0-521-83387-5 .

Awards

• 1971 Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
• 1974–1977 President of the Economic Society of Australia and New Zealand
• 1994 Officer of the Order of Australia
• 1996 Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Society of Australia
• 1997 Honorary Doctor of Letters from De Montfort University
• 2003 Honorary Doctor of Commerce from the University of Melbourne
• 2003 D. hc rer. pole. of the University of Friborg (Switzerland)
• 2003 Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences
• 2004 Honorary Member of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET)
• 2018 Companion of the Order of Australia
• Member of the Royal Economic Society

literature

• Robert Dixon: Geoff Harcourt's Selected Essays: A Review Article. In: Economic Analysis and Policy. Volume 18, No. 2, 1988, pp. 245-253, doi : 10.1016 / S0313-5926 (88) 50027-9
• The International Who's Who 1997-98. 61st edition, Europa Publications, London 1997, ISBN 1-85743-022-0 , p. 624
• Who's Who 2010. 162nd edition, A&C Black, London 2009, ISBN 978-1-408-11414-8 , p. 988
• Dictionary of international biography. 34th edition, 2008, ISBN 978-1-903986-30-1 , pp. 428-429
• Mark Blaug (Ed.): Who's who in economics. 3rd edition, Elgar, Cheltenham [u. a.] 1999, ISBN 1-85898-886-1 , pp. 495-497

Web links

• Interview with Geoff Harcourt, May 2007, part 1 , part 2
• Geoffrey C. Harcourt, 1931– , History of Economic Thought Website
• Award of Honorary Degree of Doctor of Commerce - Professor Geoffrey Colin Harcourt AO August 19, 2002
• Geoff Harcourt on the website of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia