Mrs Robinson and the Classics

Prue Kerr

Chapter 21 in 50 Years a Keynesian and Other Essays, 2001, pp 300-305 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Joan Robinson came to economics at Cambridge in the early 1920s from her schooldays’ study of history because she wanted to know why poverty and unemployment existed. (She did not feel she received satisfactory explanations from her teachers.) So from the start she was predisposed to be interested in classical political economy and the issues it was most concerned to tackle, as opposed to the more bland issues of resource allocation and the determination of relative prices in neoclassical economics.

Keywords: Economic Journal; Relative Prex; Imperfect Competition; Neoclassical Economic; Postwar Period (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230523319_21

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