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Introduction

In: Making Sense of Joan Robinson on China

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  • Pervez Tahir

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Joan Robinson’s fascination with the Chinese development took her to China eight times between 1953 and 1978. These visits led to several writings, mostly laudatory. This was the period of Chinese isolation from the world that knew only one side of the story. A number of these attempts to inform the world about developments in China reflect, in the words of Geoff Harcourt “a deliberate leaven of advocacy”. In the economics profession, this was not expected of a scholar of Joan Robinson’s standing. The main objective here is to separate analysis from advocacy. At a time when theories and models of development are being subjected to intense re-examination in view of the accumulation of experience in the developing countries as well the availability of more reliable information about socialist economies, it is instructive to look afresh at the insights as well as prejudices acquired by a theorist of the stature of Joan Robinson.

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  • Pervez Tahir, 2019. "Introduction," Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought, in: Making Sense of Joan Robinson on China, chapter 1, pages 1-6, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:pshchp:978-3-030-28825-9_1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-28825-9_1
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