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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Through a biography of the most important woman in the history of economic thought, the work offers new insights into the creation of macroeconomic theory at a crucial period in its development. Zusammenfassung One of the most original and prolific economists of the twentieth century! Joan Robinson (1903-83) is widely regarded as the most important woman in the history of economic thought. This book traces the strategies and tactics Robinson used to create her professional identity as a Cambridge economist in the 1930s. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Collage with Woman in Foreground 1 1. The Improbable Theoretician 17 Excursus: Robinson and Kahn 51 2. The Making of The Economics of Imperfect Competition 89 3. Becoming a Keynesian 161 "Who Is Joan Robinson?" 235 Notes 247 Bibliography 279 Index 295
