The Provocative Joan Robinson by Nahid Aslanbeigui
A biography of the most important woman in the history of economic thought.
This is a remarkable bookIt is the first attempt of which I am aware to deal with the complexity of Joan Robinson's contributions to Cambridge economics in the 1930s. Robinson is an iconic figure, and a series of legends-mostly created by Robinson herself in a complex process of personality and career formation-makes such a historical reconstruction necessary. 'Necessary' is the right word, since the entire history of what is now called macroeconomics, and a number of elements of the history of neoclassical economics in the pre-Second World War period, have been told from the perspective of Cambridge, England, by individuals engaged in defending the Cambridge tradition. -- E. Roy Weintraub, author of How Economics Became a Mathematical Science The Provocative Joan Robinson is an engaging, insightful, and highly original treatment of a significant figure and community in the history of economics. -- Steven G. Medema, author of The Hesitant Hand: Taming Self-Interest in the History of Economic Ideas
Nahid Aslanbeigui is Professor of Economics and the Chair of Economics, Finance, and Real Estate at Monmouth University. She is co-editor of Rethinking Economic Principles: Critical Essays on Introductory Textbooks and Women in the Age of Economic Transformation: Gender Impact of Reforms in Post-Socialist and Developing Countries.
Guy Oakes is Professor of Philosophy and Jack T. Kvernland Professor in the School of Business, also at Monmouth University. He is the author of The Imaginary War: Civil Defense and American Cold War Culture and Weber and Rickert: Concept Formation in the Cultural Sciences.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780822345381 |
| ISBN 10 | 0822345382 |
| Title | The Provocative Joan Robinson |
| Author | Nahid Aslanbeigui |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Duke University Press |
| Year published | 2009-05-22 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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