ABSTRACT
Geoffrey Harcourt begins his entry in A Biographical Dictionary of Dissenting Economists by describing himself as ‘an Australian patriot and a Cambridge economist’ (Arestis and Sawyer 1992:232). The description is well founded. Apart from his own important contributions to post-Keynesian economics. Harcourt is renowned for his surveys and commentaries on the ‘Cambridge controversies in the theory of capital’ (see Harcourt 1969, 1972, 1976, 1994a), and a long absence from his home country has not dulled his passionate interest in Australian economic policy issues (see Harcourt and Kerr 1980; Harcourt, 1982, 1992) These two strands in Harcourt’s professional career were appropriately recognized when, in the 1994 Queen’s Birthday Honours List, he was made an officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia. to the delight of his friends and colleagues.
