""The Provocative Joan Robinson" is an engaging, insightful, and highly original treatment of a significant figure and community in the history of economics."--Steven Medema, author of "The Hesitant Hand: Taming Self-Interest in the History of Economic Ideas"

Acknowledgments ix
Collage with Woman in Foreground 1
1. The Improbable Theoretician 17
Excursus: Robinson and Kahn 51
2. The Making of The Economics of Imperfect Competition 89
3. Becoming a Keynesian 161
"Who Is Joan Robinson?" 235
Notes 247
Bibliography 279
Index 295

Nahid Aslanbeigui is Professor of Economics and the Chair of Economics, Finance, and Real Estate at Monmouth University. She is co-editor of Rethinking Economic Principles: Critical Essays on Introductory Textbooks and Women in the Age of Economic Transformation: Gender Impact of Reforms in Post-Socialist and Developing Countries.

Guy Oakes is Professor of Philosophy and Jack T. Kvernland Professor in the School of Business, also at Monmouth University. He is the author of The Imaginary War: Civil Defense and American Cold War Culture and Weber and Rickert: Concept Formation in the Cultural Sciences.