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Joan Robinson was a self admitted, mathematically illiterate economist who had no idea about what Keynes was doing or saying in the period 1930-1936. She relied completely for her understanding of economics on her very close, personal relationship with R. Kahn. Kahn would explain and develop the...
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Though contemporaries, Adam Smith and Sir James Steuart are commonly portrayed as men belonging to different eras …. Whereas Smith went down in history both as founder of Classical Political Economy and patron of economic liberalism, Steuart … became known as the last, outdated advocate of mercantilist policies in Britain. Smith himself was responsible for …
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The quality of J. Robinson's short book, On Re-reading Marx, is so poor that it calls into question her capability to do research independent from the constant help, supervision and aid of Richard Kahn. The three essays, in fact, demonstrate and reflect her own actual ability to do economic...
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J M Keynes could not respond to Ramsey’s 1922 Cambridge Magazine “article” because Keynes’s response would have required him to methodically show that every paragraph of Ramsey’s 3 page note didn’t make any sense at all due to the large numbers of errors of commission and omission....
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Keynes ‘s first paragraph in his letter of the 9th of November, 1936, to Joan Robinson is the following two lines: “I beg you not to publish. For your argument as it stands is most certainly nonsense.”Anyone who reads this correspondence will soon realize that it was simply impossible for...
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