Joan Robinson, 1903-1983

Joan Violet Robinson (de soltera Maurice) pertenece al grupo de economistas más destacados del siglo XX. Líder de la "Cambridge School" fue marshalliana en origen, ardiente keynesiana y, finalmente, una destacada miembro de las escuelas neo-ricardiana y post-keynesiana.

Sus contribuciones a la literatura económica fueron muy numerosas y abordaron múltiples áreas. Joan Robinson introdujo la teoría de la competición imperfecta en su famoso libro de 1933. Después, en 1937, elaboró una fiel exposición de las ideas de Keynes. En 1942 vuelve su atención hacia la teoría marxista. Más tarde concentra su atención en problemas metodológicos.

Estuvo también muy interesada en los problemas del subdesarrollo. En los años setenta sorprendió con sus alabanzas a la "gran revolución cultural" de la China maoísta.

Profesora en la Universidad de Cambridge desde 1931, no llegó a ser catedrática hasta 1965. Nunca le dieron el Premio Nobel lo que ha sido considerado uno de los más tristes e injustos tratos deliberadamente discriminatorios.

Ver, en este mismo sitio web:
La postura postkeynesiana: la edad de oro de Joan Robinson
de Marleny Cardona Acevedo y otros

Obras

• Economics is a Serious Subject: The apologies of an economist to the mathematician, the scientist and the plain man, 1932.
• The Economics of Imperfect Competition , 1933
• "Theory of Money and Analysis of Output", 1933, RES.
• "A Parable on Savings and Investment", 1933, Economica.
• "What is Perfect Competition?", 1934, QJE.
• "Euler's Theorem and the Problem of Distribution", 1934, EJ.
• "Disguised Unemployment", 1936, EJ.
• "The Long Period Theory of Employment", 1936, ZfN.
• "Some Reflections on Marxist Economics", 19??, EJ.
• Introduction to the Theory of Employment, 1937
• Essays on the the Theory of Employment, 1937.
• "The Concept of Hoarding", 1938, EJ.
• "Rising Supply Price", 1941, Economica.
• Essay on Marxian Economics , 1942
• "The Economics of Full Employment", 1945, EJ.
• "Obstacles to Full Employment", 1946, Nationalokonomisk Tidskrift.
• "The Pure Theory of International Trade", 1946, RES.
• "Marx and Keynes", 1948, Critica Economica.
• "Mr. Harrod's Dynamics", 1949, EJ.
• "Exchange Equilibrium", 1950, Economia Internazionale.
• "The Rate of Interest", 1951, Econometrica.
• Collected Economic Papers, Vol. I, 1951.
• "The Model of an Expanding Economy", 1952, EJ.
• The Rate of Interest and other essays , 1952.
• "The Generalization of the General Theory", 1952, ???
• "The Production Function and the Theory of Capital", 1953-4, RES.
• The Accumulation of Capital , 1956.
• "Notes on the Theory of Economic Development", 1956, Annales de la Faculte de Liege.
• "India, 1955: Unemployment and planning", 1957, Capital.
• "The Philosophy of Prices", 1958, Manchester School.
• "The Real Wicksell Effect", 1958, EJ.
• "Some Problems of Definition and Measurement of Capital", Oxford EP.
• "Accumulation and the Production Function", 1959, EJ.
• Exercises in Economic Analysis, 1960.
• Collected Economic Papers, Volume II, 1960.
• "General Liquidity", 1960, The Banker.
• "Own Rates of Interest", 1961, EJ.
• "Equilibrium Growth Models", 1961, AER.
• "Prelude to a Critique of Economic Theory", 1961, Oxford EP.
• Essays in the Theory of Economic Growth , 1962.
• "A Neo-Classical Theorem", 1962, RES.
• Economic Philosophy: An essay on the progress of economic thought, 1962.
• "The Basic Theory of Normal Price", 1962, QJE.
• "Solow on the Rate of Return", 1964, EJ.
• "Factor Prices Note Equalized", 1964, QJE.
• "The Final End of Laissez-Faire", 1964, ???
• "Consumer's Sovereignty in a Planned Economy", 1964, Essays in Honor of Oskar Lange.
• "China, 1963: The Communes", 1964, Political Quarterly.
• "Pre-Keynesian Theory After Keynes", 1964, Australian EP.
• Collected Economic Papers, Volume III, 1965.
• "Korea, 1964: Economic miracle", 1965, MLR.
• "Piero Sraffa and the Rate of Exploitation", 1965, New Left Review.
• Economics: An awkward corner, 1966.
• "Comment on Samuelson and Modigliani", 1966, RES.
• "The Badly Behaved Production Function", with K.A. Naqvi, 1967 QJE.
• "Growth and the Theory of Distribution", 1967, Annals of Public and Cooperative Economy.
• "Marginal Productivity", 1967, Indian Economic Review.
• "The Poverty of Nations", 1968, Cambridge Quarterly.
• "The Theory of Value Reconsidered", 1969, Australian EP.
• "A Further Note", 1969, RES.
• "Capital Theory Up to Date", 1970, Canadian JE.
• Freedom and Necessity, 1970.
• "Harrod After 21 Years", 1970, EJ.
• Economic Heresies: Some old-fashioned questions in economic theory, 1971.
• "The Second Crisis of Economic Theory", 1972, AER.
• An Introduction to Modern Economics, with John Eatwell, 1973.
• "Formalistic Marxism and Ecology without Classes", 1973, Journal of Contemporary Asia.
• "Ideology and Analysis", 1973, in Sozialismus, Geschichte und Wirtschaft.
• Collected Economic Papers, Vol. IV, 1973.
• "History versus Equilibrium", 1974, Thames Papers in PE.
• "The Unimportance of Reswitching", 1975, QJE.
• "What Are the Questions?", 1977, JEL.
• "Employment and the Choice of Technique", 1977, Society and Change.
• "The Labour Theory of Value", 1977, MLR.
• Contributions to Modern Economics, 1978.
• "Keynes and Ricardo", 1978, JPKE.
• "Morality and Economics", 1978, Challenge.
• The Generalization of the General Theory and Other Essays, 1979.
• "Kalecki and the Economics of Capitalism", 1977, Oxford Bulletin of Statistics.
• "Thinking About Thinking", 1979,
• "Keynes Today", with F. Cripps, 1979, JPKE.
• Aspects of Development and Underdevelopment, 1979.
• "Garegnani on Effective Demand", 1979, Cambridge JE.
• What Are the Questions? And other essays, 1980.
• Collected Economic Papers, six volumes, 1951-1980.
• "Misunderstandings in the Theory of Production", 1982, in Feiwel, editor, Samuelson and Modern Economics.
• "The Arms Race", 1982, in McMurrin, editor, Tanner Lectures on Human Values.
• "The Economics of Destruction", 1983, MLR.
• "The Theory of Normal Prices and Reconstruction of Price Theory", 1985, in Feiwel, editor, Issues in Contemporary Macroeconomics.
• "Ideology and Logic", with F. Wilkinson, 1985, in Vicarelli, editor, Keynes's Relevance Today.