Joan Robinson and the Americans

by Marjorie Shepherd Turner

Overview

Employees with valuable skills and a sense of their own worth can make their jobs, pay, perks, and career opportunities different from those of their coworkers in subtle and not-so-subtle ways. This book shows how such individual arrangements can be made fair and acceptable to coworkers, and beneficial to both the employee and the employer.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780873325332
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/31/1989
Pages:	340
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Introduction; One: Joan Maurice at Cambridge; Two: The Years of High Theory; Three: The Making of Imperfect Competition; Four: American Economics and the Chamberlin Controversy; Five: Keynesian Conversion in Both Cambridges; Six: How Economics Changed in England and America; Seven: Joan Robinson and the Marxists; Eight: Generalizing the General Theory; Nine: Standoff between the Two Cambridges; Ten: The Meaning of Capital: Robinson versus Solow and Samuelson; Eleven: The Sweet and Sour of Befriending Americans; Twelve: The Mature Years: Beyond the Capital Controversy; Thirteen: Her “Great Friend,” John Kenneth Galbraith; Fourteen: North America in the Sixties: Visits and Exchanges; Fifteen: Robinson and the American Post Keynesians; Sixteen: North America in the Seventies: Lectures and Honors; Seventeen: What Are the Questions?