Aslanbeigui / Oakes / Smith The Provocative Joan Robinson

The Making of a Cambridge Economist
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9108-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 313 Seiten

Reihe: Science and Cultural Theory

Through a biography of the most important woman in the history of economic thought, the work offers new insights into the creation of macroeconomic theory at a crucial period in its development.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aslanbeigui, Nahid

Oakes, Guy

Smith, Barbara Herrnstein

Weintraub, E. Roy

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Collage with Woman in Foreground 1

1. The Improbable Theoretician 17

Excursus: Robinson and Kahn 51

2. The Making of The Economics of Imperfect Competition 89

3. Becoming a Keynesian 161

"Who Is Joan Robinson?" 235

Notes 247

Bibliography 279

Index 295

Über Autor(innen)

Nahid Aslanbeigui is Professor of Economics and the Chair of Economics, Finance, and Real Estate at Monmouth University. She is co-editor of Rethinking Economic Principles: Critical Essays on Introductory Textbooks and Women in the Age of Economic Transformation: Gender Impact of Reforms in Post-Socialist and Developing Countries.Guy Oakes is Professor of Philosophy and Jack T. Kvernland Professor in the School of Business, also at Monmouth University. He is the author of The Imaginary War: Civil Defense and American Cold War Culture and Weber and Rickert: Concept Formation in the Cultural Sciences.