Joan Robinson Inside and Outside the Stream

George R. Feiwel

Chapter 1 in Joan Robinson and Modern Economic Theory, 1989, pp 1-120 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In the 1930s there were three great waves in economics: the Keynesian revolution, the imperfect (monopolistic) competition revolution, and the ‘fruitful clarification of the analysis of economic reality resulting from the mathematical and econometric handling of the subject’ (Samuelson, 1977, p. 890). Joan Robinson was a creative participant (as a member of Keynes’s Circus) and a generalizer of the first wave and one of the two independent (and complementary) architects of the second. Her position in the third is ambivalent. While she was innocent of modern mathematical techniques and showed some hostility towards their use in economics, her own theoretical writings (especially her major pre-war (1933) and post-war (1956, 1966) books) are very formalistic and abstract. She casts her argument in what may be called the axiomatic method, even though she is tinged with the ‘Marshallian incubus’ in execution.

Keywords: General Equilibrium; Technical Progress; Capitalist Economy; Full Employment; Companion Volume (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1989
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-08633-7_1

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