Joan Robinson An Appreciation

Joan Robinson: An Appreciation Sukhamoy Chakravarty Throughout her very productive life as a creative economic theorist, Joan Robinson maintained that economics was not a 'game,' played for its own sake. She was profoundly concerned with the social relevance of economics. She attached match greater importance to the seriousness and integrity of an economist than to her/his ability to solve complicated intellectual puzzles. Her sympathies for developing countries were profound and the significance of her work in analysing the phenomenon of underdevelopment is not yet fully appreciated. The portrait of Joan Robinson as a great polemicist is the one generally known, but her substantive contributions in different branches of economics have been much greater.