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Donald J Harris [Music] Donald J Harris is a jamaican-american economist and professor ameritus at Stanford University known for applying post keian ideas to development economics he is the father of kamla Harris Vice President of the United States and of Maya Harris lawyer and political commentator born 1938 age 85 years Brownstown Jamaica parents Oscar Joseph Harris barl chrisy Harris na nationality American Jamaican spouse shiam goalen Harris M 1963 to 1971 children kamla Harris Maya Harris grandchild Mina Harris personal life Harris arrived at Personal life the University of California Berkeley on the Issa scholarship founded and funded by Kingston Merchant Elias a Issa in the 1930s in the fall of 1961 later in the fall of 19 1962 he spoke at a meeting of the afroamerican association a students group at Berkeley after his talk he met shamala goalen 1938 to 2009 a graduate student in nutrition and endocrinology from India at UC Berkeley who was in the audience according to Harris we talked then continued to talk at a subsequent meeting and at another and another in July 1963 he married shamala Harris and shamala had two children kamla Harris the 49th Vice President of the United States and mayia Harris a lawyer and political commentator the couple divorced in 1971 the children visited Harris's family in Jamaica as they grew up at some time prior to May 2015 Harris became a naturalized US citizen Career career Harris was an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana champagne from 1966 to 1967 and at Northwestern University from 1967 to 1968 he moved to the University of Wisconsin Madison as an associate professor in 1968 in 1972 he joined the faculty of Stanford University as a professor of economics and became the first black scholar to be granted tenure in Stanford's Department of Economics at various times he was a visiting fellow in Cambridge University and Delhi School of economics and visit in professor at Yale University he served on the editorial Boards of the Journal of economic literature and of Social and economic studies he is a longtime member of the American economic Association Harris directed The Consortium Graduate School of social sciences at the University of the West Indies in 1986 to 1987 and he was a Fullbright scholar in Brazil in 1990 in 1991 and in Mexico in 1992 in 1998 he retired from Stanford becoming a professor ameritus at Stanford Harris's doctoral students have included Steven fazari a professor of Economics at Washington University in St Louis and Robert a bler a professor of Economics at American University in Washington DC he helped to develop the new program in alternative approaches to economic analysis as a field of graduate study for many years he also taught the undergraduate course theory of capitalist development he took early retirement from Stanford in 1998 in order to pursue his interest in developing public policies to promote economic growth and advanced social Equity early life and education Donald Jasper Harris was born in Brownstown Saint and parish Jamaica the son of Oscar Joseph Harris and barl chrisy Harris na finigan who were afro Jamaicans as a child Harris learned the catechism was baptized and confirmed in the Anglican church and served as an acolyte his paternal grandfather Joseph Alexander Harris owned land Harris's paternal grandmother told him that she was descended from Irish born Hamilton Brown who founded the local Anglican Church he grew up in the Orange Hill area of Saint and Parish near Brown's toown and graduated from titchfield high school Harris studied at the University College of the West Indies earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of London in 1960 and earned a PhD from the University of California Berkeley and in 1966 his doctoral dissertation inflation capital accumulation and economic growth a theoretical and numerical analysis was supervised by econometrician Daniel mcfaden