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Joan Robinson and her Circle in the Run-up to and Aftermath of the Publication of The General Theory

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  • G. C. Harcourt
  • Prue Kerr

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In the Michaelmas term of 1930, Piero Sraffa formed the ‘Circus’ in order to discuss A Treatise on Money (Keynes, 1930). The ‘Circus’ consisted of Austin and Joan Robinson, Richard Kahn, James Meade (who was in Cambridge for a year before teaching economics at Oxford) and Sraffa. It ran until March 1931.1 Keynes did not attend in person. Margaret Meade described him as akin to God offstage in a morality play with Kahn, the go-between, the ‘Messenger Angel’ from God taking messages from the mortals’ discussions and criticisms ‘to Heaven’ and returning with God’s responses (see C. W., vol. XIII, 1973a, 338–9).

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  • G. C. Harcourt & Prue Kerr, 2009. "Joan Robinson and her Circle in the Run-up to and Aftermath of the Publication of The General Theory," Great Thinkers in Economics, in: Joan Robinson, chapter 3, pages 23-32, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:gtechp:978-0-230-58214-9_3
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230582149_3
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