Joan Robinson
Classical revivalist or neoclassical critic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12229055 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Harvey Gram (Queens College, CUNY, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 493-508 |
| Publication date | 2003-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Review of Political Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0953-8259 • E-ISSN: 1465-3982 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0953825032000121441 |
| OpenAlex | W2038632014 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
The capital controversy began with Joan Robinson's famous critique of the aggregate production function. She chose to include only the ‘negative’ part in the second volume of her Collected Economic Papers. The ‘constructive’ part, which had attracted so much attention in subsequent discussions of reswitching and reverse capital deepening, was peripheral to her concern with the role of realized expectations in neoclassical theory. The splitting of her famous paper into two parts raises a question. In the context of the capital controversy, should Joan Robinson be remembered as a classical economist in modern dress, or should she be remembered mainly as a critic of neoclassical theory
Capital (architecture · Constructive · Context (archaeology · Economics · Function (biology · Keynesian economics · Neoclassical economics · Positive economics · Economic Theory and Institutions · Economic Theory and Policy · History · Political Economy and Marxism
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |