Making Sense of Joan Robinson on China

• Main Author: Tahir, Pervez (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought,
• Subjects: Economic history.; Development economics.; Schools of economics.; History of Economic Thought/Methodology.; Development Economics.; Heterodox 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 outstanding contributions to the understanding of competition, aggregate demand and capital. At the same time, she developed an interest in underdevel...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Major Contributions
• 3. The First Phase: Thoughts on Socialist Development in a Backward Overpopulated Economy
• 4. The Second Phase: a 'Starry-Eyed Joan Robinson'
• 5. The Third Phase: Self-Criticism
• 6. Conclusion.