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Joan Robinson, 1903–1983

In: 50 Years a Keynesian and Other Essays

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  • G. C. Harcourt

    (Jesus College
    University of Adelaide)

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It is now over a decade since Joan Robinson died in Cambridge on 3 August 1983. Though there have been volumes of essays, articles, including issues of journals, and at least one book devoted to an evaluation of her contributions, no obituary article of Joan Robinson has been published in this Journal.1 In one sense this is shameful, but it does offer an opportunity for a longer-term perspective to be taken on her influence and achievements. Just before she died Harvey Gram and Vivian Walsh (1983) published in the Journal of Economic Literature a judicious evaluation of Joan Robinson’s impact on the profession, based on her six volumes of collected papers (Robinson, 1951–79, Collected Economic Papers (C.E.P.) (one of which was the index compiled by Prue Kerr and Murray Milgate in language and with wit which must have delighted the author). Gram and Walsh’s conclusions have stood the test of time but developments in the subject since then allow us now to reinforce their view that she had made lasting contributions, despite her own distress and near nihilism in the last years of her life.

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  • G. C. Harcourt, 2001. "Joan Robinson, 1903–1983," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: 50 Years a Keynesian and Other Essays, chapter 6, pages 91-113, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-52331-9_6
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230523319_6
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    1. Henrik Egbert & Teodor Sedlarski, 2020. "Foundations of contemporary economics: Joan Robinson and left Keynesianism – Marx, but not Marxism," Economic Thought journal, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences - Economic Research Institute, issue 6, pages 66-74.
    2. Ashwani Saith, 2008. "Forum 2008," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 39(6), pages 1115-1134, November.

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