Joan Robinson
1903 – 1983 · United Kingdom · Economics, Political Economy
Imperfect competition and a lifelong challenge to orthodox capital theory.
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- John Maynard Keynes
1883 – 1946 · Economics, Politics
Robinson was a Cambridge Circus insider and pressed Keynes further than he went.
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