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Sir Henry Roy Forbes Harrod (13 February 1900 – 8 March 1978) was an English economist. He is best known for writing ''The Life of John Maynard Keynes'' (1951) and for the development of the Harrod–Domar model, which he and Evsey Domar developed independently. He is also known for his ''International Economics'', a former standard textbook, the first edition of which contained some observations and ruminations (wanting in subsequent editions) that would foreshadow theories developed independently by later scholars (such as the Balassa–Samuelson effect). ==Biography== Born in London〔Oxford DNB〕 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.〔Roy Harrod, ''The Life of John Maynard Keynes'', Macmillan, 1951.〕 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. During the Second World War, he was briefly in Winston Churchill's "S-branch" – a statistical section within the Admiralty. At the 1945 General Election he stood as Liberal candidate for Huddersfield and finished third. After retiring in 1967, he moved to Holt, Norfolk. Interviewed for the book ''Authors take Sides on Vietnam'', Harrod declared himself a supporter of the American military campaign in Indochina.〔Cecil Woolf and John Bagguley (editors),''Authors Take Sides on Vietnam'', Peter Owen, 1967,(p.49).〕 Assar Lindbeck, the former chairman of the Nobel Prize Committee, wrote that Harrod would have been awarded a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences if he had lived longer.〔(The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics )〕 Harrod married Wilhelmine Cresswell (Billa) (1911–2005), step-daughter of General Sir Peter Strickland, in 1938.〔Josceline Dimbleby (Billa Harrod ), ''The Guardian'', 10 June 2005〕 One of their sons was Dominick Harrod, an economics correspondent for the BBC.〔(Obituary: Dominick Harrod ), telegraph.co.uk, 5 August 2013〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roy Harrod」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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