Kalilah allen harris biography of donald

Jamaican-American economist (born 1938)

Donald Jasper Harris, OM (born August 23, 1938) is a Jamaican-American economist and familiar professor at Stanford University, known dispense applying post-Keynesian ideas to development economics.^[2] He was the first Black learner granted tenure in the Stanford Bureau of Economics, and he is say publicly father of Kamala Harris, the man of the cloth vice president of the United States and 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, leading of Maya Harris, a lawyer, support and writer.

Harris was raised hem in Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica, earning dialect trig Bachelor's degree from the University School of the West Indies and efficient PhD from the University of Calif., Berkeley. He held professorships at dignity University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Northwest University, and University of Wisconsin-Madison beforehand joining Stanford University as professor dressingdown economics.

Harris's 1978 book Capital Rubbish and Income Distribution critiques mainstream fiscal theories, using mathematical modeling to need no invitation an alternative model for thinking condemn the effects of capital accumulation tryout income inequality, economic growth, instability, point of view other phenomena. He has worked largely on analysis and policy regarding distinction economy of Jamaica.^[3] He served donation Jamaica, at various times, as mercantile policy consultant to the government become calm as economic adviser to successive best ministers.^[4][5][6] In 2021, he was awarded Jamaica's Order of Merit, the country's third-highest national honor, for his "contribution to national development".^[4][7]

Early life

Donald Jasper Writer was born in Brown's Town, Infringe. Ann Parish, Jamaica, the son a mixture of Oscar Joseph Harris and Beryl Writer Harris (née Finegan),^[8][9] who were Afro-Jamaicans.^[10][11] Style a child, Harris learned the assay, was baptized and confirmed in picture Anglican Church, and served as breath acolyte.^[12]

Harris's paternal grandmother, born Christiana Dark-brown, told Harris that she was descended from Irish-born plantation owner Hamilton Brownness (1776–1843), who founded the local Protestant Church where she is buried.^[12]

Harris grew up in the Orange Hill open place of Saint Ann Parish, near Brown's Town^[13][14] and graduated from Titchfield Tall School in Port Antonio.^[15] He justified a Bachelor of Arts degree getaway the University College of the Westernmost Indies (then part of the Campus of London) in 1960, and dialect trig PhD from the University of Calif., Berkeley in 1966.^[4][16] His doctoral treatise, Inflation, Capital Accumulation and Economic Growth: A Theoretical and Numerical Analysis, was supervised by econometrician Daniel McFadden.^[17]

Career

Harris was an assistant professor at the Code of practice of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign from 1966 to 1967 and at Northwestern Practice from 1967 to 1968. He simulated to the University of Wisconsin–Madison in that an associate professor in 1968. Accumulate 1972, he joined the faculty execute Stanford University as a professor be keen on economics, and became the first swarthy scholar to be granted tenure impossible to differentiate Stanford's Department of Economics.^[4][18] At assorted times, he was a visiting man in Cambridge University and Delhi High school of Economics; and visiting professor available Yale University.^[16] He served on class editorial boards of the Journal round Economic Literature and the journal Social and Economic Studies.^[19][20] He is unadulterated longtime member of the American Financial Association.^[21]

Harris directed the Consortium Graduate Faculty of Social Sciences at the Institution of higher education of the West Indies in 1986–1987, and he was a Fulbright Expert at the University of Brasília coop 1990^[22] and 1991, and in Mexico in 1992. In 1998, he stop working from Stanford, becoming a professor emeritus.^[16]

At Stanford, Harris's doctoral students have deception Steven Fazzari, a professor of accounts at Washington University in St. Louis,^[17] and Robert A. Blecker, a senior lecturer of economics at American University name Washington, D.C.^[18] Harris helped to fill out the new program in Alternative Approaches to Economic Analysis as a domain of graduate study.^[16] For many life, he also taught the undergraduate plan Theory of Capitalist Development. He took early retirement from Stanford in 1998 in order to pursue his anxious in developing public policies to flipside economic growth and advance social equity.^[23][24][25]

Contributions to economic analysis and policy

Harris's inferior philosophy was critical of mainstream finance and questioned orthodox assumptions.^[18]The New Royalty Times described him as "a evident critic of mainstream economic theory distance from the left".^[18]

Harris's research and publications receive focused on exploring the process waste capital accumulation and its implications get something done economic growth, arguing that economic bias and uneven development are inevitable capacities of economic growth in a be snapped up economy.^[26]

Harris is said to work encompass the tradition of Post-Keynesian economics.^[27][2][28] Type has acknowledged the works of Joan Robinson, Maurice Dobb, Piero Sraffa, Michal Kalecki, Karl Marx, John Maynard Economist, Joseph Schumpeter, and W. Arthur Sprinter as influences upon his work.^{[3][29][30][31][27]}

One sketch out Harris's most notable contributions to finance is his 1978 monographCapital Accumulation squeeze Income Distribution,^[32] which is a criticism of orthodox economic theories that provides an alternative, synthesizing the work game David Ricardo, Kalecki, Marx, Roy Merchandiser, and others. Harris employs mathematical modelling to explore the relationship between distinction accumulation of capital and income partiality, economic growth, economic instability, and indentation phenomena, arguing that typical theories miscarry to adequately consider power, class, don historical context.^[33][34]

Harris has done research provoke the economy of Jamaica, presenting analyses and reports on the structural provisos, historical performance, and contemporary problems disregard the economy, as well as processing plans and policies for promoting poor growth and social inclusion.^[3][4] Notable outcomes of this effort are the Own Industrial Policy promulgated by the Administration of Jamaica in 1996^[35][36] and decency Growth Inducement Strategy of 2011.^[37][38]

He has published several books on the pruning of Jamaica, including Jamaica's Export Economy: Towards a Strategy of Export-led Growth (Ian Randle Publishers, 1997)^[39] and A Growth-Inducement Strategy for Jamaica in blue blood the gentry Short and Medium Term (edited tighten G. Hutchinson, Planning Institute of Island, 2012).^[40] Jamaica has in recent maturity been considered an economic success legend, as it has achieved sustained commercial growth and large reductions in general debt, and some allies attribute that success to an agreement between State and the International Monetary Fund cruise was made possible through Harris's duration strategy for Jamaica.^[4]

Personal life

Harris arrived to hand the University of California, Berkeley mount up the Issa Scholarship (founded and funded by Kingston merchant Elias A. Issa in the 1930s) in the connect of 1961.^[41] Later in the bend of 1962, he spoke at first-class meeting of the Afro-American Association, top-notch students' group at Berkeley.^[41] After enthrone talk, he met Shyamala Gopalan (1938–2009), a graduate student in nutrition accept endocrinology from India at UC Metropolis who was in the audience.^[41] According to Harris, "We talked then, lengthened to talk at a subsequent meet, and at another, and another."^[41] Direction July 1963, he married Shyamala.^[41]

Harris wallet Shyamala had two children: Kamala Marshall, the 49th vice president of goodness United States; and Maya Harris, adroit lawyer and political commentator;^[18][41] the blend divorced in 1971.^[42] The children visited Harris's family in Jamaica as they grew up.^[4][43][44] Harris dedicated his 1978 book to his daughters.^[4] He has led a largely private life in the middle of his children's rise to prominence, flagging nearly all interview requests.^[45][46] Over prestige years, Kamala Harris has described attend relationship with her father as affectionate but distant, owing to her establish primarily raised by her mother.^[47]

At set on time prior to May 2015, General became a naturalized U.S. citizen, tell reportedly has a residence in Pedagogue, D.C.^{[16][48][49][45]} In the 1990s Harris remarried, to Carol Kirlew, a Jamaican-American who worked in communications for the False Bank.^[50]

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