ECONOMIST

Roy Harrod

1900 - 1978

Photo of Roy Harrod

Icon of person Roy Harrod

Sir Henry Roy Forbes Harrod (13 February 1900 – 8 March 1978) was an English economist. He is best known for writing The Life of John Maynard Keynes (1951) and for the development of the Harrod–Domar model, which he and Evsey Domar developed independently. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roy Harrod has received more than 122,933 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Roy Harrod is the 238th most popular economist (down from 215th in 2019), the 2,461st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,159th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular British Economist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 120k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.74

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Roy Harrod ranks 238 out of 414. Before him are Fritz Machlup, Philip H. Dybvig, Ellen Swallow Richards, Eugen Slutsky, Johann Karl Rodbertus, and Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher. After him are Mahbub ul Haq, Étienne Laspeyres, Arthur Melvin Okun, Hernando de Soto Polar, Abhijit Banerjee, and David Card.

Most Popular Economists in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Roy Harrod ranks 163. Before him are Jean Duvieusart, Boris Yefimov, Jiří Wolker, Semyon Lavochkin, Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, and Bing Xin. After him are Madeleine Renaud, Lee Beom-seok, Juan d'Arienzo, Gilberto Freyre, Clyde Tolson, and Pavel Kurochkin. Among people deceased in 1978, Roy Harrod ranks 121. Before him are Harold Abrahams, José Gonzalvo, John D. Rockefeller III, Rubén Morán, Nicolau dos Reis Lobato, and Josef Frings. After him are Rudolf Svensson, Juan Evaristo, Carlos Riolfo, Franz Bäke, Jerzy Kuryłowicz, and Bob Crane.

Others Born in 1900

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1978

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Roy Harrod ranks 2,461 out of 8,785. Before him are Kiki Dee (1947), John Callen (1946), Galyani Vadhana (1923), Martin Lings (1909), Fatboy Slim (1963), and Peter Sutcliffe (1946). After him are Peter Frampton (1950), George Arnott Walker-Arnott (1799), Benedict Biscop (628), Sydney Chapman (1888), Richard Marquand (1937), and Robert Kerr (1755).

Others born in United Kingdom

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among ECONOMISTS In United Kingdom

Among economists born in United Kingdom, Roy Harrod ranks 33. Before him are Oliver Hart (1948), Harold Laski (1893), Israel Kirzner (1930), John A. Hobson (1858), Robert Torrens (1780), and Nassau William Senior (1790). After him are Tony Atkinson (1944), Maurice Dobb (1900), Colin Clark (1905), James Steuart (1712), John Neville Keynes (1852), and Beatrice Webb (1858).

British born Economists

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous