Roy Harrod Net Worth

Sir Henry Roy Forbes Harrod was a renowned British economist born in Norfolk, UK in 1900. He was a bright student and received scholarships throughout his studies, initially wanting to pursue philosophy but eventually settling on economics. He was heavily influenced by John Maynard Keynes and the two formed a lasting friendship. Harrod was one of the few people Keynes sought comments from while writing his famous book, 'General Theory'. Harrod was a major proponent of Keynesianism in both economic and political circles, and made significant contributions to the field of macroeconomics, including the Harrod-Domar model. He conducted research on currency and inflation, and was posthumously honored with a knighthood for his work. It is believed that had he lived longer, he would have been awarded a Nobel Prize.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Economist
Birth Day February 13, 1900
Birth Place Norfolk, United Kingdom, British
Age 119 YEARS OLD
Died On 8 March 1978(1978-03-08) (aged 78)\nHolt, Norfolk
Birth Sign Pisces
Spouse(s) Billa Harrod
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

💰 Net worth

Roy Harrod, the renowned British Economist, is estimated to have a net worth ranging from $100K to $1M by the year 2024. Harrod's contributions to economics have been widely recognized and he has left a lasting impact on the field. With a career spanning several decades, Harrod's work on economic growth theory, particularly his seminal Harrod-Domar model, has been influential in shaping economic policies worldwide. Apart from his significant contributions to academia, Harrod's net worth is a testament to his success as an economist and his immense value to the community.

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Biography/Timeline

1911

Harrod married Wilhelmine "Billa" Cresswell (1911–2005), step-daughter of General Sir Peter Strickland, in 1938. One of their sons was Dominick Harrod, an economics correspondent for the BBC.

1918

Born in London he attended St Paul's and then Westminster School. Harrod attended New College in Oxford on a history scholarship. After a brief period in the Artillery in 1918 he gained a first in "literae humaniores" in 1921, and a first in modern history the following year. Afterwards he spent some time in 1922 at King's College, Cambridge. It was there that he met and befriended Keynes.

1945

At the 1945 General Election he stood as Liberal candidate for Huddersfield and finished third.

1946

After the death of his Cambridge friend and colleague, the Economist John Maynard Keynes, in 1946, Harrod and Austin Robinson wrote a lengthy obituary of Keynes for The Economic Journal. At the encouragement of Geoffrey Keynes, Harrod then undertook the task of writing a major biography of Keynes. The Life of John Maynard Keynes was published to widespread acclaim in 1951, at a time when most of Keynes's family and friends were still alive.

1967

After moving back to Oxford, he became a Student (i.e., Fellow) and Tutor in economics at Christ Church. He held the fellowship in modern history and economics until 1967. He remained in contact with Keynes until Keynes's death in 1946, and was later his biographer (1951). Harrod was additionally a Fellow at Nuffield College 1938 to 1947 and from 1954 to 1958.

1970

With the post-war influence of so-called Keynesian economics and then challenges to it, cultural interest in the Bloomsbury Group, and the publication of thirty volumes of The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes in the 1970s and 1980s, high interest in Keynes's life lead to further biographies, most prominently by Robert Skidelsky and Donald Moggridge, and to detailed studies such as by Donald Markwell on Keynes and international relations. These works have corrected and added details to the Keynes depicted by Harrod, and Skidelsky in particular has contrasted his account of Keynes with what he has depicted as Harrod's hagiography.

2013

During the Second World War, he was briefly in Winston Churchill's "S-branch" – a statistical section within the Admiralty.