Joan Robinson and The Americans

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Introduction
1 Joan Maurice at Cambridge
	Family background
	Titular degrees for women
	Young ladies at Girton College
	"It's all in Marshall"
	Prizes and seconds, undergraduate years
	The Robinsons in India
2 The Years of High Theory
	Supervising at 3 Trumpington
	Economics is a Serious Subject
	An American as colleague: Marjorie Tappan-Hollond
3 The Making of Imperfect Competition
	The oral tradition at Cambridge
	Imperfect Competition in précis
	Impact of Imperfect Competition
	How the book was received
	Summary and some explanation
	A look into the future: two Joan Robinsons
	The revolution that never was
4 American Economics and the Chamberlin Controversy
	Edward H. Chamberlin reacts
	A case of multiple discovery?
	What's in a name?
	Origins of the theories
	Other differences
	Personal relations and exchanges
	Meeting of the minds: the international conference
	End of the affair
	Whatever happened to imperfect competition?
5 Keynesian Conversion in Both Cambridges
	English conversion, American pragmatism
	How Keynes' ideas came to the United States
	Chicago says no
	The theory of employment
6 How Economics Changed in England and America
	Kalecki comes to Cambridge
	Joan Robinson reads Marx
	Immigrant economists and American economics
	A split in methodology
	World War II: England and Cambridge
	Cambridge University after World War II
	Canadian protégé gone astray: Harry G. Johnson
	Postwar American economics
	Robinson and the quantity theory of money
	Other postwar developments
7 Joan Robinson and the Marxists
	The changing image of Joan Robinson
	An Essay on Marxian Economics
	The fallout of writing on Marx
	Reception of An Essay on Marxian Economics
	Changing views of Marxism and political economy
	Monthly Review articles (1950–1983)
	Name-calling from right and left
8 Generalizing the General Theory
	Secret seminars
	The Accumulation of Capital
	Essays in the Theory of Economic Growth
	Whatever happened to economic growth theory?
	The new Cambridge tradition
9 Standoff between the Two Cambridges
	Robinson's quarrel with neoclassical economics
	Bastard Keynesians discovered
10 The Meaning of Capital: Robinson versus Solow and Samuelson
	Jousting with Robert M. Solow
	Enter Paul Anthony Samuelson
	Correspondence on reswitching
11 The Sweet and Sour of Befriending Americans
	Robert Clower
	Axel Leijonhufvud
	The aftermath of the capital controversy
12 The Mature Years: Beyond the Capital Controversy
	Broad themes in her sixties
	Economics: An Awkward Corner
	Reports on China and Economic Heresies
	Trying to "ring through" in her seventies
13 Her "Great Friend," John Kenneth Galbraith
14 North America in the Sixties: Visits and Exchanges
	1961 swing through the States
	The Texas connection: corresponding with Ayres
	Visiting professor in the 1960s
	The Ely Lecture caps it all
15 Robinson and the American Post Keynesians
	1971: A U.S. post Keynesian movement emerges
	Growing closer to American post Keynesians
16 North America in the Seventies: Lectures and Honors
	1975: Morality in Maine
	1976: Gildersleeve lecturer at Barnard
	1978: "The economics of destruction" in Toronto
	1980: Honorary doctorate at Harvard
	1980: Inflation and crisis at Notre Dame
	1981: Peace in Utah
	1982: Reading Ricardo at Williams College
17 What Are the Questions?
	Her politics: optimism or naïveté?
	Why not a Nobel laureate?
	Some American views of Robinson's influence
APPENDIX
	Explanatory note
	Chapter Notes
		1.1 English economists and women's rights
		1.2 Cambridge department of economics in 1921
		1.3 Cambridge courses for students reading economics
		2.1 Becoming a professional
		2.2 Dedication of Economics is a Serious Subject
		3.1 Reviews of The Economics of Imperfect Competition
		4.1 Chamberlin's Monopolistic Competition
		4.2 Successive editions of Chamberlin's Monopolistic Competition
		5.1 Other reviews of Introduction and Essays in the Theory of Employment
		6.1 Immigrants bring continental economics to the United States
		6.2 Mathematical theory at Cambridge before World War II
		6.3 Samuelson on mathematics in economics
		6.4 American visitors to Cambridge and Marshall lecturers
		7.1 A variety of critics
		8.1 An account of growth theory
		8.2 Sraffa harks back to Ricardo
		8.3 The new Cambridge tradition and the Anglo-Italian  School, 1949–1975
		9.1 How marginalism came to America
		9.2 American response to Clark's defense of the status quo
		9.3 Robinson's recognition of inflationary aspects of Keynesian policy
		10.1 Robinson's view of switching and reswitching
		14.1 Robinson's passports
		14.2 American Economic Association (AEA) debate
Endnotes
References
Names Index
Subject Index
About the Author