Geoffrey C. Harcourt, 1931-

Geoffrey Harcourt is perhaps best known as the unofficial archivist and elucidator of the Cambridge Capital Controversy - most notably through his famous reviews such as Some Cambridge Controversies in the Theory of Capital (1969, 1972). An Australian economist who trained by Robinson and Kaldor at Cambridge, Harcourt's own contributions encompass the Neo-Ricardian and Post Keynesian schools - as exemplified by his Cantabrigian two- sector model (1965) and his investment model (1976). No mere theorist, however, Harcourt has stressed the need to apply real world economics (esp. accounting techniques) to deal with real world problems - which he views as the Post Keynesian signature. He apparently still splits his time between Adelaide and Cambridge.

Major works of Geoffrey C. Harcourt

• "The Quantitative Effect of Basing Company Taxation on Replacement Costs", 1958, Accounting and Business Review
• "Pricing Policies and Inflation", 1959, Econ Record
• "Pricing Policies and Earning Rates", 1961, Econ Record
• "Review of W.E.G. Salter", 1962, Econ Record
• "A Critique of Mr. Kaldor's Model of Income Distribution and Economic Growth", 1963, Australian EP
• "Mr. Sraffa's Production of Commodities: A review", with V. Massaro, 1964, Econ Record
• "A Note on Mr. Sraffa's Sub- Systems", with V. Massaro, 1964, EJ
• "A Two-Sector Model of the Distribution of Income and the Level of Employment in the Short Run", 1965, Econ Record
• "The Accountant in a Golden Age", 1965, Oxford EP
• "The Measurement of the Rate of Profit and the Bonus Scheme for Managers in the Soviet Union", 1966, Oxford EP
• "Biases in the Empiricial Estimates of the Elasticities of Subsitution of CES Production Functions", 1966, RES
• Economic Activity with P.H. Karmel and R.H. Wallace, 1967.
• "Investment-Decision Criteria, Capital-Intensity and the Choice of Techniques", 1967, Czechoslovak Economic Papers.
• "Investment-Decision Criteria, Investment Incentives and the Choice of Techniques", 1968, EJ.
• "Some Cambridge Controversies in the Theory of Capital", 1969, JEL
• Some Cambridge Controversies in the Theory of Capital, 1972.
• "The Rate of Profits in Equilibrium Growth Models: A review of Kregel", 1973, JPE
• "The Social Consequences of Inflation", 1974, Australian Accountant
• "Capital Theory: Much ado about something", 1975, Thames Papers on PE
• Theoretical Controversy and Social Significance: An evaluation of the Cambridge controversies, 1975.
• "The Cambridge Controversies: The Afterglow", 1975, in Parkin and Nobay, editors, Issues in Contemporary Economics
• "Decline and Rise: The Revival of (Classicl) Political Economy", 1975, Econ Record
• "The Cambridge Controversies: Old ways and new horizons - or a dead end?, 1976, Oxford EP
• "Pricing and the Investment Decision", with P. Kenyon, 1976, Kyklos
• "The Theoretical and Social Significance of the Cambridge Controversies in the Theory of Capital: An evaluation", 1977, Revue d'Economie Politique
• "Eric Russell, 1921-1977: A memoir", 1977, Econ Record
• Editor, The Microeconomic Foundations of Macroeconomics, 1977.
• "Can Marx survive Cambridge? Review of Steedman", 1978, Nation Review
• "Non-Neoclassical Capital Theory", 1979, World Development
• "The Social Science Imperialists", 1979, Politics.
• "A Post-Keynesian Development of the "Keynesian" Model", 1980, in E.J. Nell, editor, Growth Profits and Property
• "Notes on the Social Limits to Growth", 1981, Economic Forum.
• "Notes on an Economic Querist: G.L.S. Shackle", 1981, JPKE
• "The Sraffian Contribution: An evauation", 1982, in Howard and Bradley, editors, Classical And Marxian Political Economy
• "Marshall, Sraffa and Keynes: Incompatible bedfellows?", 1982, Eastern EJ
• The Social Science Imperialists: Selected essays, 1982.
• "An Early Post-Keynesian: Lorie Tarshis (or: Tarshis on Tarshis by Harcourt)", 1982, JPKE
• "Post Keynesianism: Quite wrong and/or nothing new?", 1982, Thames Papers in PE
• "On Piero Sraffa's Contributions to Economics", 1983, in Groenewegen and Halevi, editors, Altro Polo.
• "A Man for All Systems: Talking with Kenneth Boulding", 1983, JPKE
• "Reflections on the Development of Economics as a Discipline", 1984, HOPE
• "A Twentieth Century Eclectic: Richard Goodwin, 1985, JPKE
• "On the Influence Piero Sraffa on the Contributions of Joan Robinson to Economic Theory", 1986, EJ
• Controversies in Political Economy: Selected essays,

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