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Citation - Distinguished Alumni Award Emeritus Professor Geoffrey Harcourt AO

Emeritus Professor Geoffrey Harcourt AO is a nationally and internationally renounced Australian academic economist who is a leading member of the Post Keynesian school. Following receipt of his initial Bachelor and Masters of Commerce qualifications from the University of Melbourne in 1954 and 1956, Geoffrey Harcourt was awarded a Masters of Economics (ad eundem gradum) by the University of Adelaide in 1959 and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. He started his lectureship at the University of Adelaide in 1958 and was appointed Chair of Economics from 1967 to 1985. He was a University Lecturer from 1982–90 and Reader in the Faculty of Economics at Cambridge from 1990– 98 and a Fellow and College Lecturer in Economics, Jesus College, Cambridge from1982–98, and was President of Jesus College Cambridge from 1988–1992.

In a career spanning over 60 years, Geoffrey Harcourt has shaped the landscape of the economic theories of John Maynard Keynes, Joan Robinson and other Cambridge economists. He is also acknowledged for significant contributions in his own right to post-Keynesian and post-Kaleckian economic thought. Geoff has produced intellectual biographies of a number of leading Economists ‘with the specific intention to raise the humanity and vitality of economics'. He has published numerous applied articles on the Australian economy and played an important role in policy debates through many media interviews over several decades and has written more than 20 books on economic theories, Post Keynesianism, Political Economy and their social significance. Professor Harcourt is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and in the United Kingdom, and Officer of the Order of Australia for his service to Economic Theory and to the History of Economic Thought. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Society of Australia, the History of Economics Society 2

USA, the European Society for the History of Economics Thought and the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia. He was the 2010 Joint Veblen – Commons Awardee of the Association for Evolutionary Economics USA. The University of Adelaide also celebrates Geoff’s outstanding contribution to the University through the establishment of the Geoff Harcourt Visiting

Professorship, which annually invite a global leader in a field of economics to share their knowledge and experience not only with economic and business students and staff, but also with the business community. In Geoff’s distinguished career, he has been acknowledged by the receipt of an extremely large number of other honours from throughout the world.

In recognition of his outstanding leadership and contribution nationally and internationally in the field of Economics

Vice-Chancellor, I present to you:

Emeritus Professor Geoffrey Harcourt AO,

A fit and proper recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award