The Economics of Joan Robinson

by Marcuzzo; Maria Cristina

• ISBN13: 9780415136167
• ISBN10: 0415136164
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-03-06
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Joan Robinson is widely regarded as the greatest female economist. Her published work spanned six decades and is here analyzed by a distinguished, international team of scholars. Contributors address her work on the economics of the short period and her critique of Pigou, her contribution to the development of the Keynesian tradition at Cambridge, her response to Marx and Sraffa, her analysis of growth, development and dynamics, her comments on technical innovation and capital theory, her preference for "history" rather than equilibrium as a basis for methodology.The Economics of Joan Robinsonincludes a bibliography of her work including some 450 items which will be a major resource for students of the development of modern economic analysis.

Table of Contents

List of contributors
Introduction	p. 1
Joan Robinson and Richard Kahn: The Origin of Short-Period Analysis	p. 11
Imperfect Competition and Short-Period Economics	p. 29
Schumpeter's Review of The Economics of Imperfect Competition: Another Look at Joan Robinson	p. 36
Of Prodigal Sons and Bastard Progeny	p. 53
The Long-Period Theory of Aggregate Demand in a 1936 Article by Joan Robinson	p. 67
Joan Robinson and the Rate of Interest: An Important Change of View on a Topical Issue	p. 75
Joan Robinson and the Rate of Interest these Days	p. 81
Beggar-My-Neighbour Policies: The 1930s and the 1980s	p. 88
Joan Robinson on Marx's Theory of Value	p. 101
Joan Robinson on Normal Prices (and the Normal Rate of Profits)	p. 112
Joan Robinson, Piero Sraffa and the Standard Commodity Mystery	p. 121
Joan Robinson's Contribution to Economic Development	p. 135
Degree of Mechanization of Techniques and Scale of Mechanization of the Economy	p. 148
The Accumulations of Capital and Structural Economic Dynamics	p. 174
Harrod's Dynamic Economics and Joan Robinson's Generalization of the General Theory	p. 188
'The Golden Age' and Joan Robinson's Critique	p. 195
Economic Growth and the Theory of Capital: An Evaluation of Joan Robinson's Contribution	p. 200
Joan Robinson and 'Reswitching'	p. 209
Joan Robinson and Reswitching: An Interpretative Note	p. 218
Cambridge Histories True and False	p. 223
'Productivity Curves' in The Accumulation of Capital	p. 232
On the Transition to a Higher Degree of Mechanization	p. 249
Technical Progress in Joan Robinson's Analysis	p. 263
Joan Robinson's Changing Views on Method: A Tentative Appraisal	p. 285
Are Economic Theories Historically Specific?	p. 300
Some Reflections on Joan Robinson's Changes of Mind and their Relationship to Post-Keynesianism and the Economics Profession	p. 317
The Writings of Joan Robinson	p. 330
Index	p. 364
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