ABSTRACT
Many of us know and respect Geoff Harcourt for his role in those highbrow theoretical debates of modern economics such as the Capital Controversy, but throughout his career he has always been more than an ivory tower economist and has been constantly engaged in many policy debates. His active engagement in policy debates partially reflects the fundamentally policy-oriented nature of the Keynesian economics that he has studied and taught all his life, but also reflects his concerns, as a dedicated social reformer in the Christian socialist mould, about inequality, injustice, instability, and conflicts that still rule our societies.
