Roy Harrod | |
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 The Railway Club. (Left to right) Back: Henry Yorke, Roy Harrod, Henry Weymouth, David Plunket Greene, Harry Stavordale, Brian Howard. Middle row: Michael Rosse, John Sutro, Hugh Lygon, Harold Acton, Bryan Guinness, Patrick Balfour, Mark Ogilvie-Grant, Johnny Drury-Lowe. Front: porters | |
| Born | 13 February 1900 London, England |
| Died | 8 March 1978 (aged 78) Holt, Norfolk, England |
| Spouse | Billa Harrod |
| Academic career | |
| School or tradition | Post-Keynesian economics |
| Alma mater | New College, Oxford King's College, Cambridge |
| Influences | John Maynard Keynes, John A. Hobson |
| Contributions | Harrod–Domar model |
Sir Henry Roy Forbes Harrod (13 February 1900 – 8 March 1978) 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. 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 (wanting in subsequent editions) that would foreshadow theories developed independently by later scholars (such as the Balassa–Samuelson effect).