{"id":836,"date":"2012-02-09T11:01:16","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T01:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/knowledgetoday\/?p=836"},"modified":"2012-02-09T11:19:15","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T01:19:15","slug":"836","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/BTOpinion\/blog\/2012\/02\/836\/","title":{"rendered":"Geoff Harcourt discusses his life &amp; career in Economics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Geoff Harcourt is perhaps one of Australia\u2019s most well known economists.<\/p>\n<p>A Cambridge pupil of John Maynard Keynes, he is best known for his role in Cambridge Controversies in the Theory of Capital. This was the theoretical and mathematical debate\u00a0that raged during\u00a0the 1960s among economists concerning the\u00a0role and nature\u00a0of capital goods (also known as\u00a0the means of production) and the critique of the dominant\u00a0vision of aggregate production and distribution (held to be the neoclassical model).<\/p>\n<p>In the half-century since he has developed his own suite of post-Keynesian models, and on the occasion of his 80th birthday a conference in his honour\u00a0was held looking at \u201cThe Future of Capitalism\u201d .<\/p>\n<p>Here, he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oCKPpk4kd5M\">talks to Julian Lorkin about the academic path that lead him to develop\u00a0the Cambridge Controversies, his life &amp; career in Economics <\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Knowledge@ASB - How a Post-Keynesian Economist Became a Poster Boy for Controversy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oCKPpk4kd5M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geoff Harcourt is perhaps one of Australia\u2019s most well known economists. A Cambridge pupil of John Maynard Keynes, he is best known for his role in Cambridge Controversies in the Theory of Capital. This was the theoretical and mathematical debate\u00a0that raged during\u00a0the 1960s among economists concerning the\u00a0role and nature\u00a0of capital goods (also known as\u00a0the means [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":336,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/BTOpinion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/BTOpinion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/BTOpinion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/BTOpinion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/BTOpinion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/BTOpinion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":847,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/BTOpinion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions\/847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/BTOpinion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/BTOpinion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/BTOpinion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}