Making sense of Joan Robinson on China /

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Author / Creator:Tahir, Pervez, author.
Imprint:Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
Description:1 online resource (xiii, 197 pages)
Language:English
Series:Palgrave studies in the history of economic thought
Palgrave studies in the history of economic thought series.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12022579
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ISBN:9783030288259
3030288250
9783030288242
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 10, 2020).
Summary: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 underdeveloped economies and alternatives to capitalism that eventually produced a long list of writings on China between the 1950's to the 1970's. These writings were neither theoretical nor empirical, but a series of opinion pieces and reports. Yet it is these writings that arguably cost Joan Robinson the Nobel Memorial Prize in economics. This short book reviews those writings and comments on what has happened since with regard to China's development, Joan Robinson's interpretation and predictions, and how her 1950's lectures in China match up to China's policies since Mao. This book will be of interest to students and scholars interested in how the history of economic thought can inform and progress development economics.
Other form:Print version: Tahir, Pervez. Making Sense of Joan Robinson on China. Cham : Palgrave Macmillan US, ©2020 9783030288242