Economic Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9780367547387 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 140 str.

Joan Robinson; Sheila Dow

Opis

Joan Robinson was one of the greatest economists of the twentieth century and a fearless critic of free-market capitalism. Here she reveals the battle between economics as science and economics as ideology. Includes a new foreword by Sheila Dow.

Spis treści

Foreword to the Routledge Classics Edition Sheila Dow  1. Metaphysics, Morals and Science  2. The Classics: Value  3. The Neo-Classics: Utility  4. The Keynesian Revolution  5. Development and Under-Development  6. What are the Rules of the Game?  Index

O autorze

Joan Robinson was born in 1903 in Camberley, England. She taught economics at Cambridge from 1931 to 1971, becoming a full professor in 1965. In 1979 she became the first woman to be made an honorary fellow of King’s College. Although she never won the Nobel Prize for Economics, economists across the political spectrum thought she deserved that level of recognition. Robinson established her reputation in 1933 with the publication of The Economics of Imperfect Competition (2^nd ed. 1969), in which she coined the term ‘monopsony’, a market situation where there is only one buyer. In addition to teaching Keynesian theory, Robinson wrote several books, study guides, and pamphlets designed to introduce economic theory to the non-specialist. In the early 1940s she began introducing aspects of Marxist economics in books such as An Essay on Marxian Economics (1942; 2^nd ed. 1966) and Marx, Marshall, and Keynes (1955). As Robinson aged her left-wing sympathies grew, and ultimately she became an admirer of Mao Zedong’s China and Kim Il Sung’s North Korea, making several trips to China. She died in 1983.