Nigel Harris (economist)
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Nigel Harris (born 1935) is a British economist specializing in the economics of metropolitan areas. He is Professor Emeritus of the Economics of the City at University College London where in the 1980s he was Director for eight years of the Development Planning Unit at The_Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment. He is also a senior policy consultant to the think tank, the European Policy Centre, in Brussels, on the subject of international migration.
He earned his B.A. and M.A., both in Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1959 and 1962 respectively, and his Ph.D. (thesis: The economic and industrial policy of the British Conservative Party, 1945-1964), in 1963, at London School of Economics.
Harris was, for a time, a leading member of the British Socialist Workers Party and edited their publication International Socialism.
In recent years he has done a considerable amount of work for the World Bank. Harris' greatest public prominence in the UK has been though his advocacy and defence of immigration in such works as Thinking the Unthinkable: The Immigration Myth Exposed (2001) and he is currently a member of the RSA's Migration Commission.
Selected Publications
- Beliefs in society: the problem of ideology (1971)
- World Crisis: Essays in Revolutionary Socialism (co-edited with John Palmer) (1971)
- Competition and the Corporate Society: British Conservatives, the State and Industry, 1945-64 (1972)
- India - China: underdevelopment and revolution (1974)
- The Mandate of Heaven: Marx and Mao in modern China (1978)
- Economic development, cities and planning: the case of Bombay (1978)
- Why import controls won't save jobs: The socialist case (with Duncan Hallas) (1981)
- Of Bread and Guns: The world economy in crisis (1983)
- The End of the Third World: Newly industrialising countries and the decline of an ideology (1987)
- Why Half the World goes Hungry (1987)
- National Liberation (1990)
- City, class and trade: social and economic change in the third world (1991)
- Cities in the 1990s: the challenge for developing countries (editor) (1992)
- The new untouchables: immigration and the new world worker(1996)
- Cities and Structural Adjustment (co-edited with Ida Fabricius) (1996)
- Jobs for the Poor: A Case Study in Cuttack (1996)
- Thinking the Unthinkable: The immigration myth exposed (2002)
- The return of cosmopolitan capital: globalisation, the state and war (2003)
- The Terrorist (2007)
External links
- Website
- Prof. Harris's CV
- Entry at openDemocracy
- The Mandate of Heaven - Marx and Mao in Modern China (online version of Harris's 1978 critique of Chinese communism)
- Nigel Harris Internet Archive
- Head to head: Immigration debate. Professor Nigel Harris says all immigration controls should be abolished. BBC, 25 June 2002.
- "Refugees, economic migration and the future of the world economy" (lecture video). Gresham College, 01/12/2009.
