Donald Jasper Harris is a Jamaican-American economist and professor emeritus at Stanford University. He is the father of Kamala Harris, U.S. Senator from California and vice president-elect of the United States. He took early retirement from Stanford in 1998 in order to pursue his interest in developing public policies to promote economic growth and advance social equity.
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Donald Jasper Harris is a Jamaican-American economist and professor emeritus at Stanford University. He is the father of Kamala Harris, U.S. Senator from California and vice president-elect of the United States. Harris is said to work in the tradition of Post-Keynesian Economics. His research and publications have centered on exploring the process of capital accumulation and its implications for economic growth. Harris’s economic philosophy was critical of mainstream economics and questioned orthodox assumptions. He was once described as a \”Marxist scholar\” and said to be \”too charismatic, a pied piper leading students astray from neo-Classical economics\”. He took early retirement from Stanford in 1998 in order to pursue his interest in developing public policies to promote economic growth and advance social equity.
Harris received a Bachelor of Arts from the University College of the West Indies–University of London in 1960, and a PhD from University of California, Berkeley in 1966. His doctoral dissertation, Inflation, Capital Accumulation and Economic Growth: A Theoretical and Numerical Analysis, was supervised by econometrician Daniel McFadden. Harris was a Fulbright Scholar in Brazil in 1990 and 1991, and in Mexico in 1992. He served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Economic Literature and of Social and Economic Studies. He is a longtime member of the American Economic Association. He helped to develop the new program in Alternative Approaches to Economic Analysis as a field of graduate study. For many years he also taught the undergraduate course Theory of Capitalist Development.
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