Joan Robinson
Joan Robinson is widely considered to be amongst the greatest economists of the 20th Century. This book provides a comprehensive study of her life and work, examining her role in the making of The General Theory, her critical interest in Marxian economics
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—Duncan K. Foley, Leo Model Professor, New School for Social Research, External Professor, Santa Fe Institute, US. ‘This is an outstanding book and is a joy to read. It provides a comprehensive guide to the development of Joan Robinson’s ideas, ideas which have influenced almost every area of economics. It will also be of interest to anyone wanting to learn more about the economics of John Maynard Keynes and his circle. Thoroughly recommended for mainstream economists and not only post-Keynesians.’ —Robert Dixon, Professor of Economics at the University of Melbourne. ‘Joan Robinson was one of the most significant members of a group of younger economists working in Cambridge in the circle of Keynes. She went on to become a leading figure in the elaboration and defence of Keynesian ideas after WWII. This intellectual biography by Harcourt and Kerr is an outstanding effort. It manages to set all of those contributions in the context of a coherent picture of her intellectual formation and development. It does this, moreover, while doing full justice both to her analytical sophistication and her influence within the profession. There was scarcely a major economic debate to which she did not make a decisive contribution. One comes away from a reading of Harcourt and Kerr’s Joan Robinson feeling as though one knows much more about her, and those interventions, than when one began.’ —Murray Milgate, Queens’ College, Cambridge, UK.
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‘Joan Robinson is a welcome and timely reminder of Robinson’s intelligence, energy, passionate commitment to social justice, and tireless capacity for debate. It portrays two voyages of intellectual discovery: the evolution of Robinson’s thinking, with a due appreciation for her successes and failures; and Harcourt and Kerr’s own measured re-evaluation of the post-Keynesian revolution in which Robinson and they played central roles. The reconsideration of Joan Robinson’s life and work is one important starting-point in the broad effort to understand the evolution of twentieth-century economics and to imagine a future for economic analysis outside the narrow confines of neoliberal dogma.’
Great Thinkers in Economics Series Series Editor: A. P. Thirlwall is Professor of Applied Economics, University of Kent, UK. Great Thinkers in Economics is designed to illuminate the economics of some of the great historical and contemporary economists by exploring the interactions between their lives and work, and the events surrounding them. The books are brief and written in a style that makes them not only of interest to professional economists, but also intelligible for students of economics and the interested layperson.
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