Roy F. Harrod

Sir Henry Roy Forbes Harrod (born February 13, 1900 in Norfolk , † March 8, 1978 ibid) was an English economist .

Live and act

At the same time, but independently of Evsey D. Domar , Roy Harrod developed an economic model for the theory of growth . This is therefore called the Harrod-Domar model . Harrod graduated from New College , Oxford . He then spent some time at King's College , Cambridge , where he met John Maynard Keynes . However, he returned to Oxford and became director of a church college . Harrod and Keynes had been close friends since Cambridge, and Harrods became Keynes' official biographer. Assar Lindbeck , the former chairman of the Nobel Economy Prize Committee, once said that Roy Harrod would have received the Nobel Prize in Economy if he had lived longer.

Honors

• 1947: Member ( Fellow ) of the British Academy
• 1959: Accolade as a Knight Bachelor .
• 1966: Bernhard Harms Prize from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.

Work (selection)

• "International economics" (five editions from 1939 to 1973)
• "The life of John Maynard Keynes" , Macmillan, London 1951
• "An Essay in Dynamic Theory" , in Economic Journal, Vol. 49, pp. 14–33, (1939)
  • "German translation: An essay on dynamic theory" , in König, H. (Ed.), Growth and Development of the Economy, pp. 35–54, Cologne (1968)
• "Towards a Dynamic Economics: Some Recent Developments of economic theory and their Application to policy" , London (1942)

Web links

• Literature by and about Roy F. Harrod in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed June 7, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Knights and Dames: HA-HOR at Leigh Rayment's Peerage
3. ↑ Bernhard Harms Prize. (No longer available online.) Ifw-kiel.de , archived from the original on June 14, 2013 ; Retrieved June 15, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.