Joan Robinson: Writings on Economics

7 Volume Set
2001
ISBN: 978-0-333-97707-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 2363 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

Joan Robinson was one of the most prominent economists of the century. She made fundamental contributions to many different areas of economic thought. She studied economics at Girton College Cambridge, graduating in 1925. During the 1930's she published three books and participated in Keynes 'Circus'. Her early contributions to economics were extensions of neo-classical theory, and in 1933 she introduced the theory of imperfect competition. She became an ardent follower of Keynes and produced expositions of his theory. She was one of the first economists to take Marx seriously as an economist. She became Reader in Economics at Cambridge in 1956, and in the same year she published The Accumulation of Capital - in which she began to extend Keynes theory, in particular to take into consideration long-run issues of growth and capital accumulation. Her work on growth theory in 1962, alongside Nicholas Kaldor, led to them developing the Cambridge Growth Theory. She became the first ever female Fellow of Kings College, Cambridge in 1979. This collection of her writings is an excellent testament to the depth and breadth of the impact she had on economic theory as a whole.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Robinson, J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

VOLUME 1 Introduction; G.C.Harcourt & P.Kerr Bibliography of Secondary Sources; P.Kerr Bibliography of The Writings of Joan Robinson; M.C.Marcuzzo The Economics of Imperfect Competition: Second edition, 1969 VOLUME 2 Essays in the Theory of Employment: Second edition, 1947 VOLUME 3 Introduction to the Theory of Employment: Second edition, 1969 An Essay on Marxian Economics: Second edition, 1966 The Generalisation of the General Theory and Other Essays: Second edition, 1979 VOLUME 4 The Accumulation of Capital: Third edition, 1969 VOLUME 5 Exercises in Economic Analysis: 1960 Essays in the Theory of Economic Growth: Second edition, 1963 VOLUME 6 Economic Philosophy, 1962 Economic Heresies: Some Old-Fashioned Questions in Economic Theory, 1971 VOLUME 7 Economics: An Awkward Corner, 1966 Freedom and Necessity, 1970

Über Autor(innen)

JOAN ROBINSON (1903-1983), was a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. She was a leading English economist who followed many schools of economic thought - Marshallian economics, Keynesian economics, Neo-Ricardian economics and finally post-Keynesian economics.