Joan Robinson and her Circle in the Run-up to and Aftermath of the Publication of The General Theory

Geoffrey Harcourt and Prue Kerr

Chapter 3 in Joan Robinson, 2009, pp 23-32 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In the Michaelmas term of 1930, Piero Sraffa formed the ‘Circus’ in order to discuss A Treatise on Money (Keynes, 1930). The ‘Circus’ consisted of Austin and Joan Robinson, Richard Kahn, James Meade (who was in Cambridge for a year before teaching economics at Oxford) and Sraffa. It ran until March 1931.1 Keynes did not attend in person. Margaret Meade described him as akin to God offstage in a morality play with Kahn, the go-between, the ‘Messenger Angel’ from God taking messages from the mortals’ discussions and criticisms ‘to Heaven’ and returning with God’s responses (see C. W., vol. XIII, 1973a, 338–9).

Keywords: Monetary Policy; Real Wage; Marginal Product; Capital Good; Full Employment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230582149_3

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