Roy Harrod

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

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

Honors

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 the dynamical theory ", in King, H. ( Ed.), Growth and development of the economy, pp. 35-54, Cologne ( 1968)