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Mrs Robinson and the Classics

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Joan Robinson came to economics at Cambridge in the early 1920s from her schooldays’ study of history because she wanted to know why poverty and unemployment existed. (She did not feel she received satisfactory explanations from her teachers.) So from the start she was predisposed to be interested in classical political economy and the issues it was most concerned to tackle, as opposed to the more bland issues of resource allocation and the determination of relative prices in neoclassical economics.

Originally published in Heinz D. Kurz and Neri Selvadori (eds), The Elgar Companion to Classical Economics, L-Z (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1998) 324–8.

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Kerr, P. (2001). Mrs Robinson and the Classics. In: 50 Years a Keynesian and Other Essays. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230523319_21

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