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A Tale of Two Robinsons

In: Joan Robinson in Princely India

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  • Pervez Tahir

    (Council of Social Sciences (COSS), Pakistan)

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In the autumn of 1985, I completed the MPhil in the Economics and Politics of Development at Cambridge and started work on my doctoral dissertation on Joan Robinson’s early contributions. The first question that I had asked myself was: What was Joan Robinson’s first writing in economics and whether or not it was in any way connected with development, the area of my research. She herself remembered as her ‘first publication’ Robinson (1979, p. 110), the essay in which she made a case for economics as a serious subject (Robinson, 1932a). Actually, the first writing appearing in print under her name was the review of a book on industrial relations two years beforehand. In the course of this review, she criticizes the author for failing to ‘examine the possibility that persons of the type whose inclinations and ability lead them to build up large fortunes would gradually leave a country in which his [egalitarian] policy was being carried out for others in which the doctrine of laissez-faire was still held in a pure form’ (Robinson, 1930, p. 296).

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  • Pervez Tahir, 2022. "A Tale of Two Robinsons," Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought, in: Joan Robinson in Princely India, chapter 0, pages 25-34, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:pshchp:978-3-031-10905-8_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-10905-8_3
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