Geoff Harcourt

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

Life and work

Geoff Harcourt, was born as the son of Kenneth Kopel Harcourt and Marjorie Rachel Harcourt, born goose. He attended Malvern Grammar School and Wesley College in Melbourne. From 1951 he studied at the University of Melbourne where in 1954 the Bachelor of Commerce (Honours ), and in 1956 the Master of Commerce acquired. His master's thesis is titled Pilot Survey of Savings in Melbourne. He went to Cambridge, where he was one of the students of Joan Robinson and Nicholas Kaldor and 1960 for Ph.D. received his advantage. In 1958 he went to the University of Adelaide, where he was a Lecturer ( 1958-1962 ), Senior Lecturer ( 1963-1965 ), Reader ( 1965-1967 ) and professor working with Chair ( 1967-1985 ). In 1988 he became Professor Emeritus there. 1982-1998 he was a Fellow at Jesus College, University of Cambridge and Lecturer in Economics ( 1982-1990 ). In 1988 he received the title of Doctor of Letters. 1990 to 1998 he was reader of history of economic theory, Cambridge.

Harcourt works for Postkeynesianismus and the history of economic theory, particularly the theory of capital.

In 1955 he married Joan Margaret Bartrop, with whom he has two sons and two daughters. His hobbies include Running (not jogging ), cycling, cricket, Australian Rules 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 ( ed.): 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 (ed.): 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 at the University of Kent at Canterbury in 1983. Macmillan, Basingstoke 1985, ISBN 0-333-34687-4
  • Geoffrey Colin Harcourt (Author ); Omar F. Hamouda (eds): 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 of G. C. 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 of G. C. 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 [ua ] 2001, ISBN 0-333-94633-2
  • Geoffrey Colin Harcourt and Prue Kerr ( ed.): 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

Jesus College (Cambridge) Capital (economics) Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia Integrated Authority File
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