Joan Robinson

Robinson, Joan Violet - 1903–83, British economist, b. Surrey, England. A socialist, she worked with Keynes and taught at Cambridge Univ. (1931–71). Her treatise, The Economics of Imperfect Competition (1933), analyzes the debates over monopolistic competition and microeconomic theory. Robinson was outspoken in her criticism of social and economic injustices against the developing Read More...

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The Accumulation of Capital
by Joan Robinson. 458 pgs.

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Preface

Contents

Book I: Introduction

Chapter I: The Classes of Income

Chapter 2: The Meaning of Wealth

Chapter 3: The Meaning of Money

Chapter 4: Capital and Income

Chapter 5: Consumption and Investment

Chapter 6: The Meaning of Equilibrium

Book II: Accumulation in the Long Run

Chapter 7: A Simple Model

Section I: Accumulation with One Technique

Chapter 9: Technical Progress

Section II: The Technical Frontier

Chapter 11: The Evaluation of Capital

Chapter 12: The Technical Frontier in A Golden Age

Chapter 13: Productivity and the Real-Capital Ratio

Chapter 14: Accumulation Without Inventions

Chapter 15: A Surplus of Labour

Section III: Accumulation and Technical Progress

Chapter 17: Accumulation with Biased Progress

Book III: The Short Period

Chapter 19: Prices and Profits

Chapter 20: Wages and Prices

Chapter 21: Fluctuations in the Rate of Investment

Chapter 22: Cycles and Trends

Book IV: Finance

Chapter 23: Money and Finance

Chapter 24: The Rates of Interest

Book V: The Rentier

Chapter 25: Consumption of Profits

Chapter 26: Consumption and Accumulation in the Long Run

Chapter 27: Rentiers and the Trade Cycle

Chapter 28: Rentiers and Finance

Book VI: Land

Chapter 29: Land and Labour

Chapter 30: Factor Ratios and Techniques

Chapter 31: Land and Accumulation

Chapter 32: Land, Labour and Accumulation

Chapter 33: Increasing and Diminishing Returns

Book VII: Relative Prices

Chapter 34: Supply and Demand

Book VIII: International Trade

Chapter 35: External Investment

Chapter 36: International Investment

Conclusion

Notes on Various Topics

Diagrams

Diagrams

The Value of Invested Capital

The Value of Invested Capital

Index
2.

Economic Philosophy
by Joan Robinson. 164 pgs.

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Economic Philosophy

Contents

I Metaphysics, Morals and Science

Ii the Classics: Value

Iii the Neo-Classics: Utility

Iv the Keynesian Revolution

V Development and Under-Development

Vi What Are the Rules of the Game ?

Index of References
3.

An Essay on Marxian Economics
by Joan Robinson. 120 pgs.

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Books by Joan Robinson

Foreword

Contents

Chapter I: Introduction

Chapter II: Definitions

Chapter III: The Labour Theory of Value

Appendix: Value in a Socialist Economy

Chapter IV: The Long-Period Theory Of Employment

Chapter V: The Falling Rate of Profit

Chapter VI: Effective Demand

Chapter VII: The Orthodox Theory of Profit

Chapter VIII: The General Theory Of Employment

Chapter IX: Imperfect Competition

Chapter X: Real and Money Wages

Chapter XI: Dynamic Analysis

References to "Capital"

Index
4.

Essays in the Theory of Employment
by Joan Robinson. 266 pgs.

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Foreword

Part I

Full Employment

Mobility of Labour

Certain Proposed Remedies for Unemployment

Disguised Unemployment

Part II

The Long-Period Theory of Employment

The Concept of Zero Saving

Disinvestment

Diagrammatic Illustrations

Part III

The Foreign Exchanges

Beggar-My-Neighbour Remedies for Unemployment

Part IV

Indeterminacy

An Economist's Sermon

Some Reflections on Marxist Economics
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What Are the Questions? And Other Essays: Further Contributions to Modern Economics
by Joan Robinson. 223 pgs.

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INTRODUCTION

1: What Are the Questions?

ANALYSIS

2: The Age of Growth

3: Stagflation

4: Thinking About Thinking

5: ACCUMULATION AND EXPLOITATION: AN ANALYSIS IN THE TRADITION OF MARX, SRAFFA AN D KALECKI

6: Keynes and Ricardo

7: Time in Economic Theory

CONTROVERSY

8: The Disintegration of Economics

11: Debate: 1970s

13: Misunderstandings in the Theory of Production

TRIBUTES

14: Joseph Schumpeter

15: Piero Sraffa

17: Marxism: Religion and Science

ASPECTS OF MARXISM

18: An Open Letter from a Keynesian to a Marxist

19: The Organic Composition of Capital

20: The Labour Theory of Value

21: Marxism and Modern Economics
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Collected Economic Papers, Vol. 2
by Joan Robinson. 292 pgs.

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Introduction

Contents

Part I

Notes on Marx and Marshall

The Philosophy of Prices

The Labour Theory of Value

Rosa Luxemburg's Accumulation of Capital

The Model of an Expanding Economy

Notes on the Theory of Economic Development

Population and Development

Part II

Accumulation and the Production Function

The Theory of Distribution

Capital, Technique and Relative Shares

The Real Wicksell Effect

Saving Without Investment

Some Problems of Definition And Measurement of Capital

Depreciation

Part III

'Imperfect Competition' To-Day

Part IV

A Note on Bank Rate

Full Employment and Inflation

Index
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The Rate of Interest, and Other Essays
by Joan Robinson. 170 pgs.

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Introduction

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The Rate of Interest

Notes on the Economics Of Technical Progress

The Generalisation of The General Theory

Acknowledgments And Disclaimers

Index of References

General Index
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The New Economics: Keynes' Influence on Theory and Public Policy (Chap. 25 "The International Currency Proposals" by Joan Robinson)
by Seymour E. Harris. 726 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Contributors

Abbreviations

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Obituary: the Times (london), April 22, 1946 Lord Keynes

Part One Introduction: the Issues

Chapter I About This Book

Chapter II Keynes' Influence on Public Policy

Chapter III the Appraisal of the General Theory, 1936-37

Chapter IV Three Problems in the General Theory

Chapter VI in Relation to Classical Economics: Evolution or Revolution?

Chapter VII Keynes and the Literature

Part Two Keynes, the Economist: Three Views

Chapter VIII Keynes, the Economist (1)

Chapter X Keynes, the Economist (3)

Part Three the General Theory: Five Views

Chapter XI the General Theory (1)

Chapter XII the General Theory (2)

Chapter XIII the General Theory (3)

Chapter XIV the General Theory (4)

Chapter XV the General Theory (5)

Part Four Special Aspects

Chapter XVI Keynes on Economic Policy

Chapter XVII Public Policy--The Doctrine of Full Employment

Chapter XVIII the Significance of Keynes' Theories from the Econometric Point of View

Chapter XIX Postulates: Keynes' General Theory and the Classicists

Part Five International Economic Relations

Chapter XX International Economics: Introduction

Chapter XXI Domestic and International Equilibrium

Chapter XXII Foreign Exchange Rate Theory and Policy

Chapter XXIII Keynesian Commercial Policy

Chapter XXIV Proposals for an International Clearing Union

Chapter XXV the International Currency Proposals

Chapter XXVI the International Clearing Union

Chapter XXVII the International Monetary Fund

Chapter XXVIII the Anglo-American Financial Arrangements

Chapter XXIX the Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Part Six Economic Fluctuations and Trends and Fiscal Policy

Chapter XXX Introductory: Wastage and Investment

Chapter XXXI Keynes' Analysis of Expectations and Uncertainty

Chapter XXXII Declining Investment Opportunity

Chapter XXXIII Keynes and the Theory of Business Cycles

Chapter XXXIV Fiscal Policy

Chapter XXXV Keynesian Economics and Public Investment Policy

Chapter XXXVI the Multiplier

Part Seven Money and Prices

Chapter XXXVII the Theory of Money and Prices

Part Eight Effective Demand and Wages

Chapter XXXVIII Introduction : Keynes' Attack on Laissez Faire and Classical Economics and Wage Theory

Chapter Xxxix Effective Demand and Employment

Appendix

Chapter XL: Money Wage Rates and Employment

Part Nine Some Earlier Discussions

Chapter XLI Keynes and Traditional Theory

Chapter XLII a Simplified Model of Keynes' System

Chapter XLIII Saving Equals Investment

Chapter XLIV: Saving and Investment: Definitions, Assumptions, Objectives

Chapter XLV Alternative Formulations of the Theory of Interest

Chapter XLVI Interest Theory--Supply and Demand for Loans, or Supply and Demand for Cash?

Part Ten Bibliography of Keynes' Writings

Bibliography of Keynes' Writings

Index

A Note on the Type in Which This Book is Set
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Keynes, Post-Keynesianism and Political Economy (Chap. 15 "Cantabrigian Preferences: Joan Robinson v. Frank Hahn" and Chap. 16 "Reading Marx: Joan Robinson's Essay on Marxian Economics")
by Claudio Sardoni, Peter Kriesler. 538 pgs.

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Bringing together contributions from thirty of Geoff Harcourt's former students, this work is a valuable addition to the literature of political economy and a fitting tribute to a leading economist.

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Illustrations

Foreword

Introduction

Note

Part I: History of Political Economy and Methodology

1: Manufacturing the Smithian Paradox of Value

2: The Ricardo-Malthus Debate

3: Cassel on Cyclical Growth

4: Alfred Marshall and Evangelicalism

Notes

References

5: Dissenting Economists

Notes

6: Liquidity Preference

7: Dentists, Dreamers and Defunct Economists

8: Keynes’s Socialism

9: On Some Arguments for the Rationality of Conventional Behaviour under Uncertainty

10: Keynes on Rationality, Expectations and Investment

11: Keynes’ Common-Sense Economics

12: Scientific Communities, Language and the Keynesian Revolution

13: Situational Analysis and Agent Rationality

14: The Debate on Excess Capacity in the 1930s

15: Cantabrigian Preferences

16: Reading Marx

17: Joan Robinson

Part II: Economic Theory and Applied Analysis

18: The Cambridge Theory of Distribution in the Short Period

19: The Political Economy of Macroeconomic Policy

References

20: Unemployment Hysteresis in an Open Economy

Notes

21: How Manufacturing Can Help Young People to Get High-Wage Jobs

22: Harcourt, Hicks and Lowe

23: Technological Progress and Effective Demand

24: Lighthouses, Television and the Theory of Public Goods

25: Repetition, Evolution and Learning in Games

26: A Modified Trend through Peaks Approach to Measuring Potential Output

27: The Wage-Wage Spiral and Wage Determination

28: Disaggregated Import Demand Functions for the Italian Economy

Index
10.

Distinguished Women Economists ("Joan Robinson (1903-1983)" begins on p. 160)
by James Cicarelli, Julianne Cicarelli. 245 pgs.

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Women are vital members of the economics profession, yet they have traditionally received scant recognition for their work. This volume provides information on 51 remarkable women in the profession. They come from all areas of economics-academia, the business world, public policy-and include those who are currently active as well as 19th-century pioneers in the field. Entries cover biographical information, as well as the subjects' work, providing a unique guide to the many and varied contributions these women have made to economics.

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Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction

Edith Abbott (1876-1957)

Irma Glicman Adelman (1930-)

Bibliography

Shirley Almon (1935-1975)

Bibliography

Elizabeth Ellery Bailey (1938-)

Bibliography

Carolyn Shaw Bell (1920-)

Barbara Rose Bergmann (1927-)

Rebecca M. Blank (1955-)

Francine D. Blau (1946-)

Mary Jean Bowman (1908-2002)

Abby Joseph Cohen (1952-)

Katharine Coman (1857-1915)

Kathleen Bell Cooper (1945-)

M. Kathryn Eickhoff (1939-)

Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847-1929)

Marianne A. Ferber (1923-)

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Nancy Folbre (1952-)

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Ann Fetter Friedlaender (1938-1992)

Selma F. Goldsmith (1912-1962)

Heidi I. Hartmann (1945-)

Ann Horowitz (1936-)

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Caroline M. Hoxby (1966-)

Juanita M. Kreps (1921-)

Hazel Kyrk (1886-1957)

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Rosa Luxemburg (1870-1919)

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Jane Haldimand Marcet (1769-1858)

Mary Paley Marshall (1850-1944)

Harriet Martineau (1802-1876)

Deirdre N. Mccloskey (1942-)

Jean Trepp Mckelvey (1908-1998)

Bibliography

Harriet Hardy Taylor Mill (1807-1858)

Selma J. Mushkin (1913-1979)

Margaret Gilpin Reid (1896-1991)

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Jennifer F. Reinganum (1955-)

Ingrid H. Rima (1925-)

Alice M. Rivlin (1931-)

Joan Robinson (1903-1983)

Isabel V. Sawhill (1937-)

Anna J. Schwartz (1915-)

Nancy L. Schwartz (1939-1981)

Frances Julia Stewart (1940-)

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Diane C. Swonk (1962-)

Nancy Hays Teeters (1930-)

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Mabel F. Timlin (1891-1976)

Marjorie S. Turner (1921-)

Laura D'Andrea Tyson (1947-)

Phyllis Ann Wallace (C. 1924-1993)

Barbara M. Ward (1914-1981)

Beatrice Potter Webb (1858-1943)

Bibliography

Marina Von Neumann Whitman (1935-)

Ann Dryden Witte (1942-)

Bibliography

Theresa Wolfson (1897-1972)

Appendix: Biographees by Birth Year

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