CamSoc NSW Christmas Drinks with guest speaker, Thursday 15 December 2016

Over 40 members and guests attended the 2016 Cambridge Society of NSW Christmas Drinks with guest speaker Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Harcourt AO, Emeritus Reader in The History of Economic Theory, Cambridge, 1998. He spoke about the ABC of G&T (government expenditure and taxation, not gin and tonic!); a serious theme about which our speaker feels strongly, heard his views on our and other countries’ treasurers and politicians. G.C. Harcourt was born in Melbourne in 1931. He is a graduate of Melbourne University (B.Com. Hons. 1954, M.Com. 1956) and of Cambridge University (PhD 1960, LittD 1988). He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia (F.A.S.S.A.) (1971), an Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia (AO) ‘for service to economic theory and to the history of economic thought’ (1994), Distinguished Fellow, Economic Society of Australia (1996), Fellow of the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences (FAcSS) (2003), Distinguished Fellow, History of Economic Society, USA (2004), Honorary Member, European Society for the History of Economic Thought (2004), Veblen-Commons Award of the Association for Evolutionary Economics, USA (2010), Distinguished Fellow, History of Economic Thought Society of Australia (2012), Distinguished Alumni Award of the University of Adelaide (2015), Fello w of the Royal Society of New South Wales (FRSN) (2016). He is Professor Emeritus of the University of A delaide (1988), Emeritus Reader in the History of Economic Theory, Cambridge University (1998), Emeritus Fellow, Jesus College, Cambridge (1998), and Visiting Professorial Fellow, UNSW Australia (2010–2019). He has authored or edited 30 books, and published over 400 articles, review articles, chapters in books, and reviews.