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Joan Robinson: An Informal Memoir

In: Joan Robinson and Modern Economic Theory

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  • Duncan K. Foley

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My first encounter with Joan Robinson was when I was a graduate student and read her Review of Economic Studies article on the concept of capital and the production function. This left me (and apparently many other people) bewildered; in my case not only because I had difficulty in following her argument, but also because due to defects in my education in economics, I was not very familiar with the concept of capital she was attacking. What I had studied of economic theory, general equilibrium theory, made me doubt that it was possible to summarize general production sets in a two-dimensional space, but I was in enough awe of those very successful theorists who asserted that it was possible, that I decided to avoid thinking about the problem too hard.

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  • Duncan K. Foley, 1989. "Joan Robinson: An Informal Memoir," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: George R. Feiwel (ed.), Joan Robinson and Modern Economic Theory, chapter 40, pages 874-876, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-08633-7_40
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-08633-7_40
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    1. Alex Millmow, 2003. "Joan Robinson's disillusion with economics," Review of Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 15(4), pages 561-574.

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