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Joan Olive Robinson Hill (February 6, 1931 – March 19, 1969) was a socialite and equestrian from Houston, Texas. Her unexplained death at age 38 led to her husband, John Hill, becoming the first person to be indicted by the state of Texas on the charge of murder by omission. The case precipitated a series of events that included the 1972 ...
Joan Robinson. Joan Violet Robinson, née Maurice (October 31, 1903 – August 5, 1983) was a Keynesian economist, arguably the only great female economist born before 1940. She was well known for her work on monetary economics and development of undeveloped countries. Her 1933 publication The Economics of Imperfect Competition introduced the ...
Jan 18, 2024 · Joan Violet Robinson, an eminent British economist, made pioneering contributions to the field of economics, particularly in the areas of monopolistic competition, market structures, and the theory of economic growth. Early Life and Education. Robinson was born into a well-off family in Surrey, England, in 1903.
Making Sense of Joan Robinson on China. This book will be of interest to students and scholars interested in how the history of economic thought can inform and progress development economics. Joan Robinson was a member of the famous Keynes Circus of young economists at Cambridge in the 1930's. She was a theorist par excellence, making ...
Joan Robinson (1903-1983) was educated at Cambridge University and was a leading figure in the economics faculty there for nearly thirty years. In 1958 she joined the British academy, in 1965 she became a fellow and professor of Girton College and in 1979 she became the first woman to become a fellow at King's College.
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Mar 29, 2021 · Joan Robinson (1903-1983) was one of the greatest economists of the twentieth century and a fearless critic of free-market capitalism. A major figure in the controversial ‘Cambridge School’ of economics in the post-war period, she made fundamental contributions to the economics of international trade and development.
Feb 1, 2021 · Joan Robinson’s Economic Philosophy argues that values are embedded in all of economics, whether acknowledged or not: ‘economics … has always been partly a vehicle for the ruling ideology of each period as well as partly a method of scientific investigation’. Whatever ideology economics applies should therefore be brought to the surface and debated.
