- Roy Harrod
Sir Roy Forbes Harrod (
February 13 ,1900 –March 8 ,1978 ) was an Englisheconomist . He, independently ofEvsey Domar , developed an importanteconomic model now called theHarrod-Domar model .Born in
Norfolk , Harrod attended New College in Oxford. Afterwards he spent some time atKing's College, Cambridge . There he metJohn Maynard Keynes and made friends with him.After moving back to Oxford, he became a Student (i.e.
Fellow ) and Tutor in economics at Christ Church. He was still in contact with Keynes and was later his biographer. He was additionally a Fellow at Nuffield College 1938 to 1947 and from 1954 to 1958.He married Wilhelmine Cresswell (Billa) in 1938 [ [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article521292.ece "Times" Obituary of Lady Harrod] ] .
List of works
* "International economics" (London: Nisbet, and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; New York: Harcourt and Brace)
* “Doctrines of Imperfect Competition”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 48, May 1934, pp. 442-470.
* “The expansion of Credit in an Advancing Community”, Economica, NS 1, August 1934, 287-299
* "The Trade Cycle (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1936)
* “Mr. Keynes and Traditional Theory, Econometrica, vol 5., January 1937, 74-86.
* “Scope and Method of Economics”, Economic Journal, XLVIII, Sept. 1938, pp. 383-412.
* "An Essay in Dynamic Theory", Economic Journal IL, March 1939, pp. 14-33.
* Towards a Dynamic Economics" (London: Macmillan, 1948)
* "The Life of John Maynard Keynes" (London: Macmillan, 1951)
* "Economic Essays" (London: Macmillan, 1952)
* "The Prof: A Personal Memoir of Lord Cherwell" (London, Macmillan, 1959)
* "Domar and Dynamic Economics”, Economic Journal LXIX, September 1959, pp. 451-464.
* “Second Essay in Dynamic Theory”, Economic Journal LXX, June 1960, pp. 277-293.
* “Themes in Dynamic Theory”, Economic Journal VXXIII, September 1963, pp. 401-421.
* Sociology, Morals and Mystery, (London: Macmillan, 1970).
* Economic Dynamics (London: Macmillan, 1973).
* [http://economia.unipv.it/harrod/edition The Interwar correspondence of Roy Harrod] (Cheltenham: Elgar, 2003)Notes
External links
* [http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/harrod.htm The History of Economic Thought Website - Sir Roy F. Harrod, 1900-1978]
* [http://economia.unipv.it/harrod/ The Roy Harrod Page]
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