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... studied them then-whether it be thirty or three hundred years ago. University of Illir.ois at Urbana-Champaign ROYALLBRANDIS Joan Robinson and the Americans. By Marjorie S. Ihrner. Armonk, N.Y., and London: M. E. Shape, 1989. xv, 315 pp...

...Roger E. Backhouse Joan Robinson . By Harcourt G. C. Kerr Prue . London : Palgrave Macmillan , 2009 . x; 270 pp. £69.00 . References Chamberlin E. H. 1933 . The Theory of Monopolistic Competition . Cambridge : Harvard University Press . Hutchison T. W...

...Lowell R. Jacobsen This article offers a contextualization of strategy in the intellectual history of the early twentieth century. In particular, the Marshall-inspired contributions of Austin Robinson and Dennis Robertson are examined as possible precursors of strategy, with special attention...

...Salim Rashid © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 Salim Rashid is Assistant Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College . History of Political Economy 10:2 8 1978 by Duke University Press David Robinson...

...Mauro Boianovsky; Gerardo Serra Abstract Joan Robinson's infatuation with Mao's China remains the most controversial episode of the Cambridge economist's life. Drawing on the literatures on observation in science and economics, and economists' travels, we aim to overcome the dichotomy between...

...Harvey Gram; G. C. Harcourt Roger Backhouse remarks in “MIT and the Other Cambridge” ( History of Political Economy 46, supplement) that the capital theory controversy came to be seen by most of the economics profession as a waste of time. Joan Robinson's 1953 paper “The Production Function...

...Fritz Söllner Robinson Crusoe stories were and are extensively used in neoclassical economics. The behavior of neoclassical Robinson Crusoe, however, is at odds both with that of Defoe's hero, the original Robinson Crusoe, and that of real-world castaways. Only the early neoclassicals can...

...Sheila C. Dow Maria Cristina Marcuzzo, Luigi L. Pasinetti, and Alessandro Roncaglia. London: Routledge, 1996. 370 pp. $90.00. Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 598 Book Reviews The Economics of Joan Robinson. Edited by Maria Cristina Marcuzzo, Luigi L. Pasinetti...

... unpublished papers in the Joan Violet Robinson Papers in King's College Archives was kindly granted by Jacqueline Cox. I also wish to thank Jacqueline Cox for her help and encouragement. Finally, I wish to thank the two anonymous referees of this journal whose comments have assisted me in clarifying important...

...G. C. Harcourt Correspondence may be addressed to the author, Faculty of Economics and Politics, Austin Robinson Building, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 9DD, England. Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 References Gram , Harvey , and Vivian Walsh. 1983...

...Roger E. Backhouse In the late 1950s and early 1960s MIT economists, led by Paul Samuelson and Robert Solow, became involved in a long controversy with economists in Cambridge, England, led by Joan Robinson, Luigi Pasinetti, and Nicholas Kaldor, over the theory of capital. This article looks...

...Philipp Robinson Rössner Modern models of economic growth and capitalist modernity rest on capital accumulation, inclusive institutions, and various often unquantifiable aspects of “culture” (to which institutions belong). Scholars have also pinpointed the ability, or rather illusion, of human...

...Philipp Robinson Rössner Capitalism is often assumed to have been invented in the Anglosphere. Writings by Hume and Smith have been named as cornerstones in the making of capitalism and modern economic knowledge. But Smith’s and the other Enlightenment Scots’ works built on a commercial tradition...

... in Economics” to Be Accomplished , there was never a unified school. A major theme, particularly for Joan Robinson, was the theory of investment advanced by Keynes in his General Theory . This in turn is examined critically. The post-Keynesian group, with the notable exception of Nicholas Kaldor, proved...

...Nahid Aslanbeigui; Guy Oakes In February 1933, Edward Chamberlin published The Theory of Monopolistic Competition. Joan Robinson's The Economics of Imperfect Competition followed in the spring. A disciplinary consensus quickly formed, holding that the two books represented simultaneous discoveries...

...J. E. King; Alex Millmow Correspondence may be addressed to J. E. King, Department of Economics and Finance, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia 3086; e-mail: [email protected] . Duke University Press 2003 Asimakopulos, A. 1972 . Review of Robinson 1971. Canadian Journal...

...Mauro Boianovsky By G. C. Harcourt. Basingstoke (Hampshire), U.K.: Palgrave, 2001. xii; 364 pp. $69.95. 2003 Harcourt, G. C. 1992 . Marshall's Principlesas Seen in Cambridge through the Eyes of Gerald Shove, Dennis Robertson, and Joan Robinson. In On Political Economists and Modern...

...Peter C. Dooley Joan Robinson. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1980. Five vols. + Index. $125. Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 Book Reviews 291 erable efforts. The publication of these two books underscores...

... for valuable comments and criticism. Thanks are due to King's College, Cambridge, for permission to quote from an unpublished letter by J. Robinson and to D. Papineau for permission to quote from an unpublished letter by Kahn. Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Becattini, G. 1990 . Alfred...

... . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Ferguson , C. E. [ 1971 ]. “Capital Theory Updated: A Comment on Mrs. Robinson's Article.” Canadian Journal of Economics , vol. 4 (May 1971 ). Ferguson , C. E. , and Robert F. Allen [ 1970 ]. “Factor Prices, Commodity Prices, and Switches...