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Two Views on Development: Austin and Joan Robinson

In: 50 Years a Keynesian and Other Essays

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  • G. C. Harcourt

    (Jesus College
    University of Adelaide)

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I first met Austin and Joan Robinson in 1955 when I came from Melbourne University to King’s College, Cambridge to do a PhD. Though neither supervised me, I came to know them both well, first as teachers, then as colleagues and admired and loved friends. Joan was one of my mentors; the principal intellectual reason why I returned to Cambridge in the early 1980s was to document the contributions of Joan and her circle. In recent years, therefore, I have been reading or re-reading her books and articles and her papers in the King’s Archives, and I have written a number of essays around this principal theme. I also came to know Austin over the years and to re-read or read for the first time his many contributions to our discipline. At the moment I am preparing the essay on him for the Proceedings of the British Academy (Harcourt, 1997). So, though I have no claim to be a development economist — I understand that those at the pinnacle of our trade feel that there is no such animal anyway (I beg to differ) — I thought, nevertheless, that it might be of interest to have the impressions of a general economist of the insights, similarities and differences which these two great economists and human beings brought to our thinking on the problems and processes of development.

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  • G. C. Harcourt, 2001. "Two Views on Development: Austin and Joan Robinson," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: 50 Years a Keynesian and Other Essays, chapter 22, pages 306-322, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-52331-9_22
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230523319_22
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    Cited by:

    1. Ashwani Saith, 2008. "Forum 2008," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 39(6), pages 1115-1134, November.
    2. John Toye, 2006. "Keynes and development economics: a sixty-year perspective," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 18(7), pages 983-995.

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