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1 online resource (340 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 Joan Maurice at Cambridge; Family background; Titular degrees for women; Young ladies at Girton College; It's all in Marshall -- Prizes and seconds, undergraduate years; The Robinsons in India; 2 The Years of High Theory; Supervising at 3 Trumpington; Economics is a Serious Subject; An American as colleague: Marjorie Tappan-Hollond; 3 The Making of Imperfect Competition; The oral tradition at Cambridge; Imperfect Competition in précis; Impact of Imperfect Competition; How the book was received |
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6 How Economics Changed in England and AmericaKalecki comes to Cambridge; Joan Robinson reads Marx; Immigrant economists and American economics; A split in methodology; World War II: England and Cambridge; Cambridge University after World War II; Canadian protégé gone astray: Harry G. Johnson; Postwar American economics; Robinson and the quantity theory of money; Other postwar developments; 7 Joan Robinson and the Marxists; The changing image of Joan Robinson; An Essay on Marxian Economics; The fallout of writing on Marx; Reception of An Essay on Marxian Economics |
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Changing views of Marxism and political economyMonthly Review articles (1950-1983); Name-calling from right and left; 8 Generalizing the General Theory; Secret seminars; The Accumulation of Capital; Essays in the Theory of Economic Growth; Whatever happened to economic growth theory?; The new Cambridge tradition; 9 Standoff between the Two Cambridges; Robinson's quarrel with neoclassical economics; Bastard Keynesians discovered; 10 The Meaning of Capital: Robinson versus Solow and Samuelson; Jousting with Robert M. Solow; Enter Paul Anthony Samuelson; Correspondence on reswitching |
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11 The Sweet and Sour of Befriending AmericansRobert Clower; Axel Leijonhufvud; The aftermath of the capital controversy; 12 The Mature Years: Beyond the Capital Controversy; Broad themes in her sixties; Economics: An Awkward Corner; Reports on China and Economic Heresies; Trying to ""ring through"" in her seventies; 13 Her ""Great Friend, "" John Kenneth Galbraith; 14 North America in the Sixties: Visits and Exchanges; 1961 swing through the States; The Texas connection: corresponding with Ayres; Visiting professor in the 1960s; The Ely Lecture caps it all |
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And some explanationA look into the future: two Joan Robinsons; The revolution that never was; 4 American Economics and the Chamberlin Controversy; Edward H. Chamberlin reacts; A case of multiple discovery?; What's in a name?; Origins of the theories; Other differences; Personal relations and exchanges; Meeting of the minds: the international conference; End of the affair; Whatever happened to imperfect competition?; 5 Keynesian Conversion in Both Cambridges; English conversion, American pragmatism; How Keynes' ideas came to the United States; Chicago says no; The theory of employment |
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15 Robinson and the American Post Keynesians |
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Print version record |
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Robinson, Joan, 1903-1983.
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| SUBJECT |
Robinson, Joan, 1903-1983 fast |
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Economists -- Great Britain -- Biography
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Economists
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Great Britain
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Biographies
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351561679 |
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1351561677 |
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