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Seymour Edwin Harris, 1897-1975.

Keynesian economist at Harvard, and US government advisor.

Born in New York City, Seymour E. Harris was associated with Harvard for much of his life - earning his BA in 1920 and his Ph.D  in 1926.  Harris joined the Harvard faculty in 1922 as an instructor, remaining there for much of his career. 

Harris started off as a relative conservative economist, and in his early tracts (e.g. 1934) was suspicious of the New Deal and advocated deflation.

Seymour E. Harris was one of the chief post-war propagators of Keynesian theory and policy in the United States.  Editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics from 1943.  He was a frequent advisor to the U.S. government and held numerous official posts.  A prolific writer, Harris wrote numerous books not only on macroeconomics, but on a myriad of other subjects, notably education and health care.

Allegedly as a result of Harvard's unsavory quota policy, Seymour E. Harris was the only Jewish member of the Harvard's department and had to wait eighteen years before earning tenure, becoming full professor only in 1945.   Harris retired from Harvard in 1964, going to teach at the University of California, San Diego until 1972.

 

  

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Major Works of Seymour E. Harris

  • The Assignats, 1930
  • Twenty years of Federal Reserve Policy, 1933
  • Economics of the Recovery Program, 1934
  • Exchange Depreciation: Its Theory and its History, 1931-1935, with Some Consideration of Related Domestic Policies, 1936
  • Economics of America at War, 1943
  • Economic Problems of Latin America, 1944
  • Economic Reconstruction, 1945
  • Inflation and the American Economy, 1946
  • National Debt and the New Economics, 1947
  • Editor, The New Economics: Keynes's Influence on theory and public policy, 1947.
  • The European Recovery Program, 1948
  • Economics of Planning, 1949
  • Economics of Mobilization and Inflation, 1951
  • The Economics of New England: case study of an older area, 1952
  • John Maynard Keynes: Economist and policymaker. 1955.
  • International and Interregional Economics, 1958
  • Higher Education in the United States, 1960.
  • The Dollar in Crisis, 1961
  • The Economics of Political Parties, 1962
  • "Fiscal Policy", 1962, in Harris, editor, American Economic History
  • Higher Education: Resources and finance. 1962.
  • Economics of the Kennedy Years, 1964.
  • Economics of Harvard, 1970
  • Economics of Healthcare: Finance and delivery, 1975

 
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