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Donald A R George (born 30 June 1953) is a British economist. He has spent most of his academic life at the School of Economics, University of Edinburgh, UK and has held visiting posts at Copenhagen School of Economics, the European University Institute (Italy), Queen's Univesity (Canada) and the University of Canterbury (New Zealand). George is a co-founder of the Journal of Economic Surveys and continues to serve as one of its Managing Editors. He is distantly related to Lord (Eddie) George, a former governor of the Bank of England and the American economist Henry George.

Education
George holds degrees in Mathematics from the University of Sussex and Economics from the University of Oxford where he studied under James Mirrlees, Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen.

Research Contributions
George's research contributions fall into two main categories. Firstly he has, together with co-author Les T Oxley, offered a fundamental critique of the saddlepoint dynamic structure commonly found in many macroeconomic models. He has gone on to develop an alternative approach to dynamic stability based on the lag structure of macroeconomic models. Secondly he has carried out research on workers' coopertaives and wage-earner investment funds and proposed policies by which a cooperative sector could be promoted under capitalism. George has also published on many other topics including product reliability and economic methodology. He has criticised the narrowness of mainstream economics and has advocated a pluralist aproach to the discipline. George has been criticised for failing to publish in mainstream academic journals, but he has argued that academic research should be judged on the basis of its content rather than its place of publication.

Personal Life
George lives in Edinburgh, and in the 1990's was romantically linked with the children's writer J K Rowling, who also lives in the city.