ABSTRACT
Geoff Harcourt has always made it clear that his economics is inextricably bound up with his politics and his religion. Thus, for example, he describes himself as a Christian socialist (Harcourt 1994), and he discusses the evolution and interdependence of his religious, political and economic views in his autobiographical statement (Harcourt 1992). This interdependence is also evident from the social concern underlying all his theorizing. Geoff Harcourt has expressed the motivation underpinning his economics as follows: ‘to make the world a better place for ordinary men and women, to produce a more just and equitable society…. I see economics as very much a moral as well as a social science and very much a handmaiden of progressive thought’ (Harcourt 1986).
