C. Lowell Harriss

Clement Lowell Harriss (1912–2009) was an American economist, a past president of the National Tax Association and a former executive director of the Academy of Political Science. He was one of the United States' leading tax experts He was professor emeritus of economics at Columbia University and taught there for 43 years. He was the professor for whom the C. Lowell Harriss Professorship of Economics and International Affairs at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia was named.

Early life Harriss was born in Fairbury, Nebraska. He accepted the posthumous 1996 Nobel Prize in Economics for his colleague at Columbia, William Vickrey, because the announcement of the prize occurred just three days before Vickrey died. Vickrey had been awarded the prize along with James Mirrlees for research on the economic theory of incentives.

Professional associations He was a member of the American Economic Association, the Mont Pelerin Society and the Royal Economic Society. He worked as a consultant to both the U.S. Treasury and the Agency for International Development.

Death and legacy Harriss died of natural causes on December 14, 2009, at his home in Bronxville, New York, at the age of 97. He was one of the few remaining economists to have experienced the American Great Depression.

The American Institute for Economic Research established a memorial scholarship program in his honor to be "given to enrolled students who have demonstrated innovative and creative accomplishments in businesses they are operating while attending college." The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, where Harriss had served on the board of directors, established a dissertation fellowship program in his name.

He was awarded the Daniel M. Holland Medal by the NTA in 1998.

Books Gift Taxation in the U.S. (1940)

History and Policies of the Home Owners Loan Corporation (1951)

The American Economy: Principles, Practices, Policies (1953)

The Good Earth of America (1974)

Money and Banking (1961)

Economics (1966)

Constitutional Restrictions on Property Taxing and Borrowing Powers In New York (1967)

Innovations in Tax Policy and Other Essays (1972)

Inflation: Long-Term Problems (1973)

Government Spending and Land Values (1973)

The Property Tax and Local Finance (1983)

The Control of Federal Spending (1985)