Roy Forbes Harrod

Sir Roy Forbes Harrod , born 1900 and dead 1978 with Norfolk, (England), is an English economist. He makes his studies and taught with the Université of Oxford, with the Université of Cambridge where he will make knowledge with John Maynard Keynes. He is known in Economic scenes for the model Harrod-Domar.

He published work of a large variety, exploring various aspects of the Economic scene. Most of its work treats analysis of the Economic growth, but it also carried out research on the Monnaie and the Inflation. It in addition completed many work on the Théorie of knowledge and the Mémoire.

Contributions

Theory of the knowledge of Harrod

The Théorie of knowledge of Harrod was mainly exposed in a book published in 1956, The Foundations off Inductive Logic . The author claims there to refute the arguments of the Scottish philosopher David Hume criticizing induction like mode of knowledge. According to this last, the observation of particular cases cannot lead to the statement of a general proposal. For example one cannot conclude, under pretext which we saw only of the white swans, which all the swans are white. Harrod refutes the skepticism of Hume, founded on this criticism of induction, in the name of what it calls the “principle of the experiment”. According to this principle, there exist strong probabilities that events which occurred a great number of times reproduce in the future. Harrod thus justifies thanks to the probabilities the experiment like base of the theories of knowledge.

Economy

Roy Harrod is attached to the current Post-keynesien and in particular contributed to the development of the theories of growth after the Second world war, with the presentation of what was then called the model Harrod-Domar.

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