Geoffrey Harcourt (1931–2021): His Life and Works

Cornish, Selwyn; Hawkins, John

doi:10.1080/10370196.2022.2046974

History of Economics Review

2022

DOI: 10.1080/10370196.2022.2046974

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Geoffrey Harcourt (1931–2021): His Life and Works

Selwyn Cornish

John Hawkins

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“…Two obituary articles (apart from a number of shorter pieces on the press etc.) about Geoff Harcourt have been published so far, both by Australian economists (Kriesler 2022;Cornish & Hawkins 2022). Before that, during Harcourt's lifetime, a number of biographical accounts and/or assessments of his contributions to economics came out, firstly as part of Groenewegen & Macfarlane's (1990: 196-99) discussion of seven internationally prominent Australian economists from 1950.…”

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Geoffrey Colin Harcourt (1931-2021): A Cambridge Economist From Down Under

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2022

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Geoffrey Colin Harcourt (1931-2021): A Cambridge Economist From Down Under

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G.C. Harcourt: An economist with accounting sense

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2023

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Geoffrey Colin Harcourt’s work on the interface between accountancy and economics is a part of his legacy that is less well-known than his work on the capital controversies. This paper argues that the analytical findings of this research effort are an important and integral part of Harcourt’s overall research programme. In this paper, we review Harcourt’s work on the relation between economics and accounting from the time of his undergraduate thesis to 1969, the date of the publication with Robert Parker of the edited volume Readings in the Concept and Measurement of Income. This paper intends to offer insights on (A) the evolution of Harcourt’s thought during this period and a survey of the significant contributions he made to research in this field during this time and (B) the legacy of his approach and findings. We argue that his ideas in this domain offer important insights in doing post-Keynesian economics in the Harcourt mould. We find that Harcourt’s insights on the issues relating to the accounting rate of profit as used by economists remain relevant to today, as well as his implicit suggestions on how to deal with the complexities of the problems that ensue for the theorist, practical economist, businessman, and policy advisor. Harcourt’s work suggests that we should not aim to replace one monolithic way of seeing things with another, indicating that the useful definition of key concepts and tools is determined by the problem and hence by the policy question one wants to answer.

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Remembering Geoff Harcourt (1931–2021): a post-Keynesian pioneer

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Hawkins²

2022

Journal of Post Keynesian Economics

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Geoffrey Harcourt (1931–2021): His Life and Works

Cited by 6 publications

References 99 publications

Geoffrey Colin Harcourt (1931-2021): A Cambridge Economist From Down Under

Geoffrey Colin Harcourt (1931-2021): A Cambridge Economist From Down Under

G.C. Harcourt: An economist with accounting sense

Remembering Geoff Harcourt (1931–2021): a post-Keynesian pioneer

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