biography
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Robinson, Joan V(iolet)
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née Maurice
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1903–83)
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| biography:
| Economist, born in Camberley, Surrey, SE England, UK. She studied at Cambridge, and taught there (1931–71), in 1965 succeeding her husband (Edward) Austin (Gossidge) Robinson (1897–1993) as professor of economics. She was one of the most influential economic theorists of her time, playing a leading role in the 1930s in the development of theories of imperfect competition, and in the post-war period as a leader of the Cambridge school, which developed macro-economic theories of growth and distribution, based on the work of Keynes. |
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