Joan Robinson was one of the most important contributors to economics in the 20th Century.

She used theory and graphs, but she also used poetry to expound the great debates between capitalism and socialism over the 20th Century.

This is part II of a two-part series on the life of Cambridge economist Joan Robinson.

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Two key texts on Joan Robinson’s life are Nahid Aslanbeigui and Guy Oakes’ The Provocative Joan Robinson, and Marjorie Shepherd Turner’s Joan Robinson and the Americans.

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References

2018. “Marshall, Alfred.” International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences.

Aslanbeigui, Nahid, and Guy Oakes. 2009. The Provocative Joan Robinson: The Making of a Cambridge Economist. Durham and London: Duke University Press.

Blaug, Mark. 1992. Joan Robinson (1903-1983) and George Shackle (1903-1992). Aldershot: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited.

Cairncross, Alexander. 1993. Austin Robinson: The Life of an Economic Advisor. Basingstoke: Macmillan.

Chamberlin, Edward H. 1933. The Theory of Monopolistic Competition: A Re-orientation of the Theory of Value. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

Harcourt, Geoffrey C., and Prue Kerr. 2009. Joan Robinson. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Harcourt, Geoffrey C., and Kriesler, P. 2011. “The influence of Michał Kalecki on Joan Robinson’s approach to economics.” In Microeconomics, Macroeconomics and Economic Policy: 153–169. London: Macmillan.

Groenewegen, Peter. “Joan Robinson: 1903 – 1981.” Australian Left Review 86. Accessed from [http://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1139&context=alr].

Keynes, John Maynard. 1930. A Treatise on Money. London: Macmillan.

— 1936. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. London: Macmillan.

Marcuzzo, Maria Cristina, and Annalisa Rosselli. 2008. “The history of economic thought through gender lenses.” In Frontiers in the Economics of Gender. Eds. Francesca Bettio, Alina Verashchagina. London: Routledge.

Robinson, Joan. 1932. Economics is a Serious Subject: The Apologia of an Economist to the Mathematician, the Scientist and the Plain Man. Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons.

— 1933. The Economics of Imperfect Competition. London: Macmillan.

— 1937. Essays in the Theory of Employment. London: Macmillan.

— 1942. An Essay on Marxian Economics. London: Macmillan.

— 1956. The Accumulation of Capital. London: Macmillan.

— 1975. Economic Management in China. London: Anglo-Chinese Educational Institute.

Rima, Ingrid H. (Ed.) 1991. The Joan Robinson Legacy. New York: M. E. Sharpe, Inc.

Shepherd Turner, Marjorie. 1989. Joan Robinson and the Americans. Abingdon: Routledge.

Tullberg, Rita McWilliams. 1998. Women at Cambridge, Revised Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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Music

This episode uses Divertissement, Flighty Theme, Enchanted Valley and Enchanted Journey by Kevin MacLeod. They are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license.

Artist: http://incompetech.com/.