Two Views on Development: Austin and Joan Robinson

Geoffrey Harcourt

Chapter 22 in 50 Years a Keynesian and Other Essays, 2001, pp 306-322 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract I first met Austin and Joan Robinson in 1955 when I came from Melbourne University to King’s College, Cambridge to do a PhD. Though neither supervised me, I came to know them both well, first as teachers, then as colleagues and admired and loved friends. Joan was one of my mentors; the principal intellectual reason why I returned to Cambridge in the early 1980s was to document the contributions of Joan and her circle. In recent years, therefore, I have been reading or re-reading her books and articles and her papers in the King’s Archives, and I have written a number of essays around this principal theme. I also came to know Austin over the years and to re-read or read for the first time his many contributions to our discipline. At the moment I am preparing the essay on him for the Proceedings of the British Academy (Harcourt, 1997). So, though I have no claim to be a development economist — I understand that those at the pinnacle of our trade feel that there is no such animal anyway (I beg to differ) — I thought, nevertheless, that it might be of interest to have the impressions of a general economist of the insights, similarities and differences which these two great economists and human beings brought to our thinking on the problems and processes of development.

Keywords: Good Sector; British Academy; Agricultural Surplus; Wartime Experience; Advanced Capitalist Country (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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