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Roy Harrod

English economist (1900-1978) · United Kingdom · On the map · Academics · Died at 78

Sir Henry Roy Forbes Harrod was an English economist. He is best known for writing The Life of John Maynard Keynes (1951) and for the development of the Harrod-Domar model, which he and Evsey Domar developed independently.

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1978Died8 March 19781966Bernhard Harms PrizeAward1951Fellow of the Econometric SocietyAward1950Honorary Doctor of the University of PoitiersAward1900Born13 February 1900

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Bernhard Harms Prize1966
Fellow of the Econometric Society1951
Honorary Doctor of the University of Poitiers1950
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He is also known for his International Economics, a former standard textbook of international economics, the first edition of which contained some observations and ruminations that would foreshadow theories developed independently by later scholars.

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United Kingdom
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
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Lived 1900 to 1978 · aged 78