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Joan Robinson
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English economist (1903–1983)
OverviewAI-generated
Joan Violet Robinson (1903–1983) was a British economist and university teacher. Born in Camberley, she was the daughter of Frederick Barton Maurice and the spouse of Austin Robinson. She studied at St Paul's Girls' School, Girton College, and the University of Cambridge, where John Maynard Keynes served as her doctoral advisor. Robinson taught at Newnham College and held citizenship in the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Her academic career included authoring works such as *Marx and modern economics*, *An Essay on Marxian Economics*, and *Collected Economic Papers*. She was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the British Academy, and the American Philosophical Society. Robinson received the awards of Fellow of the British Academy and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She also supervised the doctoral student Amartya Sen.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1903
- Died
- 1983
- Works
- 137
Top works
- Marx and modern economics
- WordStrength
- Collected Economic Papers Volume Three
- COLLECTED ECONOMIC PAPERS. Volume II.
- An Essay on Marxian Economics
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1946-08-15
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 93
- Total plays
- 235
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- <tt>edgeR</tt>
: a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data
· 2009 · cited 39,707x
- Welcome to the Tidyverse
· 2019 · cited 20,494x
- Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities
· 2009 · cited 18,985x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,984x
- Integrative genomics viewer
· 2011 · cited 14,820x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “Whatever you can rightly say about India, the opposite is also true.”
- “It is the business of economists, not to tell us what to do, but show why what we are doing anyway is in accord with proper principles.”
- “The misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited at all.”
- “Progress is slow partly from mere intellectual inertia. In a subject where there is no agreed procedure for knocking out errors, doctrines have a long life. A professor teaches what he was taught, and his pupils, with a proper respect and reverence for teachers, set up a resistance against his critics for no other reason than that it was he whose pupils they were.”
- “The fundamental differences between Marxian and traditional orthodox economics are, first, that the orthodox economists accept the capitalist system as part of the eternal order of Nature, while Marx regards it as a passing phase in the transition from the feudal economy of the past to the socialist economy of the future.”
- “In general, the nightmare quality of Marx's thought gives it, in this bedevilled age, an air of greater reality than the gentle complacency of the orthodox academics. Yet he, at the same time, is more encouraging than they, for he releases hope as well as terror from Pandora's box, while they preach only the gloomy doctrine that all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Joan Violet Maurice , ( 1903-10-31 ) 31 October 1903, Surrey , England
- Died
- 5 August 1983 (1983-08-05) (aged 79), Cambridge , England
- Spouse
- Austin Robinson (m. 1926)
- Influences
- Adam Smith , Karl Marx , John Maynard Keynes , Piero Sraffa , Michał Kalecki
- Discipline
- Monetary economics
- School or tradition
- Post-Keynesian economics
- Doctoral students
- Amartya Sen
- Notable ideas
- Joan Robinson's growth model , Amoroso–Robinson relation , Monopsony theory , Imperfect competition
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Joan Violet Robinson FBA (née Maurice; 31 October 1903 – 5 August 1983) was a British economist known for her wide-ranging contributions to economic theory. One of the most prominent economists of the century, Robinson incarnated the "Cambridge School" in most of its guises in the 20th century. She started out as a Marshallian, became one of the earliest and most ardent Keynesians after 1936, and ended up as a leader of the neo-Ricardian and post-Keynesian schools.
Early life and education
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