Joan Robinson

Geoffrey Harcourt

Chapter 1 in Post-Keynesian Essays in Biography, 1993, pp 3-20 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Joan Robinson is the rebel with a cause par excellence. She has been at the forefront of most major developments, some of them revolutionary, in modem economic theory since the late 1920s. Joan Robinson has always believed passionately in her subject as a force for enlightenment and she has coupled this belief with an equally passionate hatred of social injustice and oppression. She has thrown in her lot with the wretched of the earth, whether they be the unemployed of the capitalist world in the 1930s, or the poverty-stricken and militarily oppressed of the Third World in the postwar era, or students cheated of the living fire by their professors in the 1970s.

Keywords: Imperfect Competition; Logical Time; Neoclassical Theory; Effective Demand; Perfect Competition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1993
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-12826-6_1

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