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Images of Joan

In: Joan Robinson and Modern Economic Theory

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  • I. G. Patel

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I came to King’s College, Cambridge, in November 1944 lured mainly by two names, Keynes and Mrs Robinson. My University of Bombay Prize consisted of three books which I had tried to read carefully soon after graduation: Keynes’s General Theory, Mrs Robinson’s Imperfect Competition, and James Meade’s Economic Analysis and Policy. The first aroused my curiosity about a number of things which were not clear enough to me then. The second was crystal clear and intellectually exciting. The third convinced me that Economics was a useful subject. Someone told me that if I liked these books, I should go to King’s because both Keynes and Mrs Robinson were there — little did we know of Cambridge then! I was, therefore, delighted when I learnt on arriving at Cambridge that Mrs Robinson at least was not drafted into the war effort — whether because of her radicalism or simply because of her sex, I had wondered.

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  • I. G. Patel, 1989. "Images of Joan," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: George R. Feiwel (ed.), Joan Robinson and Modern Economic Theory, chapter 36, pages 863-865, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-08633-7_36
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-08633-7_36
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