Donald J. Harris
Jamaican-American economist
Donald Jasper Harris (born August 23, 1938) is a Jamaican-American economist and professor emeritus at Stanford University. He was known for applying post-Keynesian ideas to development economics.[1] He is the ex-husband of Indian-American Biomedical Scientist Shyamala Gopalan. He is the father of the 49th and current vice president of the United States, Kamala Harris, as well as of her sister, lawyer and political commentator Maya Harris.[2]
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 Harris in 1974 | |
| Born | Donald Jasper Harris August 23, 1938 |
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| Relatives | Harris family |
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| Education | University of London (BA) University of California, Berkeley (PhD) |
| Thesis | Inflation, Capital Accumulation and Economic Growth : A Theoretical and Numerical Analysis (1966) |
| Doctoral advisor | Daniel McFadden |
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| Discipline | Economics |
| Sub-discipline | Post-Keynesian development economics |
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| Website | Stanford Department of Economics page |
References
change- ↑ "Donald J. Harris, 1938–". The History of Economic Thought. Institute for New Economic Thinking. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
- ↑ Dolan, Casey (February 10, 2019). "How Kamala Harris' immigrant parents shaped her life – and her political outlook". The Mercury News. Retrieved August 14, 2020.
Kamala also visited far-flung family in India and Jamaica as she grew up, getting her first taste of the broader world.
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