# Valpy FitzGerald

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British economist

Valpy FitzGerald Born (1947-01-30) 30 January 1947 (age 79) Organization University of Oxford Known for Development economics Children 3 Website www.qeh.ox.ac.uk/people/valpy-fitzgerald

**Valpy Fitzgerald** (aka *E. V. K. Fitzgerald*) is a British development economist and emeritus professor of International Development Finance at the [Oxford Department of International Development](/source/Oxford_Department_of_International_Development). His research focus has been on international finance and taxation, income inequality, [Kaleckian](/source/Micha%C5%82_Kalecki) macroeconomics, and Latin America. He is the son of the noted author [Penelope Fitzgerald (née Knox)](/source/Penelope_Fitzgerald) and soldier Desmond Fitzgerald and the grandson of the former editor of Punch [Edmund George Valpy Knox](/source/Edmund_George_Valpy_Knox).[1]

## Academic service and awards

- Managing editor of the [Journal of Development Studies](/source/Journal_of_Development_Studies) in the 1980s

- Queen Victoria Eugenia chair at the [Universidad Complutense](/source/Universidad_Complutense) (Madrid) 1995-6 and 1996-7 [2]

- Honorary Doctorate awarded by Complutense University (Dec 2014)[3]

## Selected publications

- FitzGerald, V. (2006). Financial development and economic growth: a critical view. Background Paper for World Economic and Social Survey.

- Fitzgerald, V. (1999). The economics of liberation theology. The Cambridge companion to liberation theology, 218–234.

- Fitzgerald, V. (2005). Economic doctrines in Latin America: origins, embedding and evolution. R. Thorp (Ed.). Palgrave Macmillan.

- Fitzgerald, V. (2002). Social Institutions and Economic Development. Kluwer..

- [Stewart, F.](/source/Frances_Stewart_(economist)), & Fitzgerald, E. V. K. (2001). War and underdevelopment (Vol. 2). OUP Oxford.

- FitzGerald, V. (2006). Models of saving, income and the macroeconomics of developing countries in the Post-Keynesian tradition. Growth and Economic Development: Essays in Honour of AP Thirlwall, 247–264.

- FitzGerald, E. V. K. (1978). Public sector investment planning for developing countries. London: Macmillan[4][5]

- FitzGerald, E. V. K. (1988). Kalecki on planned growth in the mixed economy. Development and Change, 19, 33–52.

- FitzGerald, E.V.K. 1989. (editor with C. M. Cooper). Development studies revisited: Twenty five years of the [Journal of Development Studies](/source/Journal_of_Development_Studies), London, Frank Cass.

- FitzGerald, E. V. K. (1990). Kalecki on the financing of development: An approach to the macroeconomics of the semi-industrialized economy. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 14, 183–203.

- FitzGerald, E. V. K. (1993). The macroeconomics of development finance: A Kaleckian analysis of the semi-industrialized economy. London: Macmillan.10.1007/978-1-349-22475-3

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [Toye, J.](/source/John_Toye_(economist)) (2017). Valpy FitzGerald: radical macroeconomist of development. Oxford Development Studies, 45(2), 116–124.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [https://fundacionhispanobritanica.org/que-hacemos/catedra-de-doctorado-reina-victoria-eugenia/](https://fundacionhispanobritanica.org/que-hacemos/catedra-de-doctorado-reina-victoria-eugenia/)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** [https://ucm.es/english/honorary-doctorates](https://ucm.es/english/honorary-doctorates)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Kemal, A. R. (1979). [Review of Public Sector Investment Planning for Developing Countries, by E. V. K. FitzGerald]. The Pakistan Development Review, 18(2), 187–189.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Parker HR (1979) Fitzgerald, E. V. K. "Public Sector Investment Planning for Developing Countries" (Book Review) Third World Planning Review Volume 1, Number 2

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