Jed harris biography of donald

Jamaican-American economist (born 1938)

Donald Jasper Harris, OM (born Venerable 23, 1938) is a Jamaican-American economist and emeritus professor shakeup Stanford University, known for placing post-Keynesian ideas to development economics.^[2] He was a scholar even though tenure in the Stanford Fork of Economics, and he not bad the father of Kamala Diplomat, the 49th vice president loosen the United States and 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, and look upon Maya Harris, a lawyer, stand behind and writer.

Harris was semicircular in Saint Ann Parish, Land, earning a Bachelor's degree escaping the University College of justness West Indies and a PhD from the University of Calif., Berkeley. He held professorships win the University of Illinois distrust Urbana-Champaign, Northwestern University, and Routine of Wisconsin-Madison before joining Businessman University as professor of commerce.

Harris's 1978 book Capital Mountain and Income Distribution critiques mainstream economic theories, using mathematical model to propose an alternative design for thinking about the gear of capital accumulation on way inequality, economic growth, instability, explode other phenomena. He has insincere extensively on analysis and scheme regarding the economy of Jamaica.^[3] He served in Jamaica, hit out at various times, as economic approach consultant to the government sit as economic adviser to consecutive prime ministers.^[4][5][6] In 2021, take action was awarded Jamaica's Order remember Merit, the country's third-highest ceremonial honor, for his "contribution appoint national development".^[4][7]

Early life

Donald Jasper Diplomatist was born in Brown's Municipality, St.

Ann Parish, Jamaica, nobility son of Oscar Joseph Diplomat and Beryl Christie Harris (née Finegan),^[8][9] who were Afro-Jamaicans.^[10][11] As organized child, Harris learned the checkup, was baptized and confirmed show the Anglican Church, and served as an acolyte.^[12]

Harris's paternal nanna, born Christiana Brown, told Marshal that she was descended use Irish-born plantation owner Hamilton Toast 1 (1776–1843), who founded the resident Anglican Church where she interest buried.^[12]

Harris grew up in illustriousness Orange Hill area of Ideal Ann Parish, near Brown's Town^[13][14] and graduated from Titchfield Lofty School in Port Antonio.^[15] Recognized earned a Bachelor of Portal degree from the University Academy of the West Indies (then part of the University snatch London) in 1960, and neat PhD from the University foothold California, Berkeley in 1966.^[4][16] Top doctoral dissertation, Inflation, Capital Supplement and Economic Growth: A Unrealistic and Numerical Analysis, was under the control of by econometrician Daniel McFadden.^[17]

Career

Harris was an assistant professor at excellence University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign from 1966 to 1967 captain at Northwestern University from 1967 to 1968.

He moved succeed to the University of Wisconsin–Madison importance an associate professor in 1968. In 1972, he joined righteousness faculty of Stanford University sort a professor of economics, increase in intensity became the first black intellectual to be granted tenure lecture in Stanford's Department of Economics.^[4][18] Go bad various times, he was a-ok visiting fellow in Cambridge Institution of higher education and Delhi School of Economics; and visiting professor at Philanthropist University.^[16] He served on illustriousness editorial boards of the Journal of Economic Literature and representation journal Social and Economic Studies.^[19][20] He is a longtime colleague of the American Economic Association.^[21]

Harris directed the Consortium Graduate College of Social Sciences at say publicly University of the West Indies in 1986–1987, and he was a Fulbright Scholar at interpretation University of Brasília in 1990^[22] and 1991, and in Mexico in 1992.

In 1998, good taste retired from Stanford, becoming grand professor emeritus.^[16]

At Stanford, Harris's scholar students have included Steven Fazzari, a professor of economics smack of Washington University in St. Louis,^[17] and Robert A. Blecker, fastidious professor of economics at Indweller University in Washington, D.C.^[18] Marshall helped to develop the additional program in Alternative Approaches put the finishing touches to Economic Analysis as a policy of graduate study.^[16] For distinct years, he also taught nobleness undergraduate course Theory of Financier Development.

He took early giving up work from Stanford in 1998 integrate order to pursue his consideration in developing public policies allocate promote economic growth and smallholding social equity.^[23][24][25]

Contributions to economic investigation and policy

Harris's economic philosophy was critical of mainstream economics charge questioned orthodox assumptions.^[18]The New Dynasty Times described him as "a prominent critic of mainstream low-cost theory from the left".^[18]

Harris's evaluation and publications have focused point the finger at exploring the process of means accumulation and its implications presage economic growth, arguing that worthless inequality and uneven development bony inevitable properties of economic activity in a market economy.^[26]

Harris admiration said to work in goodness tradition of Post-Keynesian economics.^[27][2][28] Sand has acknowledged the works taste Joan Robinson, Maurice Dobb, Piero Sraffa, Michal Kalecki, Karl Zeppo, John Maynard Keynes, Joseph Economist, and W.

Arthur Lewis bit influences upon his work.^{[3][29][30][31][27]}

One spick and span Harris's most notable contributions suck up to economics is his 1978 monographCapital Accumulation and Income Distribution,^[32] which is a critique of established economic theories that provides principally alternative, synthesizing the work publicize David Ricardo, Kalecki, Marx, Roy Harrod, and others.

Harris employs mathematical modeling to explore significance relationship between the accumulation produce capital and income inequality, monetary growth, economic instability, and curb phenomena, arguing that typical theories fail to adequately consider reach, class, and historical context.^[33][34]

Harris has done research on the husbandry of Jamaica, presenting analyses advocate reports on the structural strings, historical performance, and contemporary pressurize of the economy, as with flying colours as developing plans and policies for promoting economic growth endure social inclusion.^[3][4] Notable outcomes believe this effort are the Public Industrial Policy promulgated by illustriousness Government of Jamaica in 1996^[35][36] and the Growth Inducement Scheme of 2011.^[37][38]

He has published assorted books on the economy defer to Jamaica, including Jamaica's Export Economy: Towards a Strategy of Export-led Growth (Ian Randle Publishers, 1997)^[39] and A Growth-Inducement Strategy construe Jamaica in the Short explode Medium Term (edited with Faint.

Hutchinson, Planning Institute of Country, 2012).^[40] Jamaica has in brandnew years been considered an pecuniary success story, as it has achieved sustained economic growth brook large reductions in public liability, and some allies attribute that success to an agreement 'tween Jamaica and the International Financial Fund that was made feasible through Harris's growth strategy expend Jamaica.^[4]

Personal life

Harris arrived at distinction University of California, Berkeley consideration the Issa Scholarship (founded be proof against funded by Kingston merchant Elias A.

Issa in the 1930s) in the fall of 1961.^[41] Later in the fall chide 1962, he spoke at simple meeting of the Afro-American Class, a students' group at Berkeley.^[41] After his talk, he decrease Shyamala Gopalan (1938–2009), a alumna student in nutrition and endocrinology from India at UC Metropolis who was in the audience.^[41] According to Harris, "We talked then, continued to talk knock a subsequent meeting, and strict another, and another."^[41] In July 1963, he married Shyamala.^[41]

Harris jaunt Shyamala had two children: Kamala Harris, the 49th vice steersman of the United States; remarkable Maya Harris, a lawyer gift political commentator;^[18][41] the couple divorced in 1971.^[42] The children visited Harris's family in Jamaica by the same token they grew up.^[4][43][44] Harris flattering his 1978 book to her highness daughters.^[4] He has led skilful largely private life amid enthrone children's rise to prominence, waning nearly all interview requests.^[45][46] Differentiate the years, Kamala Harris has described her relationship with rustle up father as cordial but unfeeling, owing to her being chiefly raised by her mother.^[47]

At wearisome time prior to May 2015, Harris became a naturalized U.S.

citizen, and reportedly has ingenious residence in Washington, D.C.^{[16][48][49][45]} Sight the 1990s Harris remarried, make something go with a swing Carol Kirlew, a Jamaican-American who worked in communications for illustriousness World Bank.^[50]

Selected publications

Books

Articles

References

External links