Conveys Joan Robinson’s perspective on economic theory and policy, touching on opposing positions. Examines her formative years as an economist and her first steps in her long struggle to escape from Marshall and Pigou which culminated in her first magnum opus and discuss the grounds on which she later repudiated it. Feiwel proceeds to some aspects of the Keynesian Revolution and her later attempts at extending it to the long run. Concludes with Robinsons’ views on the state of economic theory, the questions asked by modern economists, and her attitude towards alternative approaches.
