The ‘provocative’ Joan Robinson
A nice introduction to the tour-de-force that was Joan Robinson, pioneer of Keynesian economics.
One of the most original and prolific economists of the twentieth century, Joan Robinson (1903-83) is widely regarded as the most important woman in the history of economic thought. Robinson studied economics at Cambridge University, where she made a career that lasted some fifty years. She was an unlikely candidate for success at Cambridge.
Joan's first publication appeared in 1932 in the form of a pamphlet Economics is a Serious Subject, followed by her first major work The Economics of Imperfect Competition in 1933.
Read more on her life here.
Based on the extensive correspondence of Robinson and her colleagues the book, "The Provocative Joan Robinson: The Making of a Cambridge Economist" is the story of a remarkable woman, the intellectual and social world of a legendary group of economists, and the interplay between ideas, ambitions, and disciplinary communities.