John F. Henry

John Forrest Henry was a heterodox economist, a perspicacious historian of economic thought, a trenchant social critic, an eloquent writer, and an amiable colleague and mentor.  

He was born in Red Hill, Pennsylvania in April 1943 and died in Kansas City, Missouri in September 2020.  He went to Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA (BA in Economics, 1965) and to McGill University, Montreal, Canada (MA and PhD in Economics, 1967 and 1974 respectively). Henry's PhD adviser was Professor Athanasios (Tom)  Asimakopulos. 

Henry worked at California State University-Sacramento (1970-2004), University of Missouri-Kansas City (2001-2014), and Levy Economics Institute of Bard College until 2020.  In 2017 he received the Veblen-Commons Award from the Association for Evolutionary Economics, the highest scholarly honor recognized by the international organization of original institutional economists. He was the president of the Association for Institutional Thought (2007). He is the author of two books, The Making of Neoclassical Economics (1990, Unwin Hyman; 2011, Routledge) and John Bates Clark (1995, Macmillan).