Talk:Joan Robinson
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Needs a rewrite. Charles Matthews 18:52, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)
"In 1952, Robinson was raped by Piero Sraffa at Cambridge after falling asleep at the King's College library. Despite fearing him for the rest of her life, she sided with Sraffa in the Capital controversy(Emani 2000)"
Is this right? I was a Cambridge economics student for three years and have never heard this story. I can't find Emani 2000 on either Amazon or Google Scholar.
Paul Mason
jenpalex@actapple.org.au
- I'm worried about this, too. "Emani" is probably a mispelling of Zoreh Emami and the book by Robert Dimand seems to exist. However, we need to read the book to check whether the information is really there. Unfortunatelly, I don't have US$200 to spend and it can be difficult to find that book in a library here (Brazil). -- Leoadec (talk) 13:40, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
I looked at that book in the library and the relevant chapter does not include that information (I knew that the claim was false anyway). I deleted that paragraph, but left the book in the references section. It obviously covers much of hte information here and has a 1 to 1 correspondence with what someone looking for an encyclopedia entry on Robinson would want anyway.
The chronology of this article is inconsistent. It claims she visited China during the second world war and during this time praised the Cultural Revolution. However, the Cultural Revolution wasn't going on until twenty years later. Is it possible that she merely praised the Communist revolution? I don't know anything about Joan Robinson, but that paragraph seems wrong to a naive reader like myself. 24.81.138.180 07:38, 2 March 2006 (UTC) Dylan Tisdall (dylan@geeky.net)
"During the Second World War, Joan Robinson worked on a few different Committees for the Wartime Labour Government. During this time, she visited Soviet Union as well as China. She developed an interest in underdeveloped and developing nations and contributed a lot that is now understood in this section of economics. At that time, she praised the Chinese Cultural Revolution."
It looks like the entry means the time during which she contributed to development economics by "at that time," not during world war 2. Her writings on development span a few decades which would include the time of the GPCR.
