Nigel Harris is a British

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 economist

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 specializing in the economics of metropolitan areas. He is Professor Emeritus of the Economics of the City at University College London

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. He is also a senior policy consultant to the think tank

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, the European Policy Centre

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, in Brussels

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, 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.

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 (thesis: The economic and industrial policy of the British Conservative Party

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, 1945-1964), in 1963, at London School of Economics

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.

Harris was, for a time, a leading member of the British Socialist Workers Party

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 and edited their publication International Socialism

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.

In recent years he has done a considerable amount of work for the World Bank

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. Harris' greatest public prominence in the UK has been though his advocacy and defence of immigration

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 in such works as Thinking the Unthinkable: The Immigration Myth Exposed (2001) and he is currently a member of the RSA's

Royal Society of Arts

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 Migration Commission.

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
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  , 25 June, 2002.
• "Refugees, economic migration and the future of the world economy" (lecture video). Gresham College
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  , 01/12/2009.