Robinson, Joan Violet (Nee Maurice) 1903 – 1983
Archival location guide — where this economist’s surviving papers are held, their notable correspondents, and key published sources.
Born 1903 · died 1983
Joan Violet Robinson was a British economist known for her wide-ranging contributions to economic theory. One of the most prominent economists of the century, Robinson incarnated the "Cambridge School" in most of its guises in the 20th century. She started out as a Marshallian, became one of the earliest and most ardent Keynesians after 1936, and ended up as a leader of the neo-Ricardian and post-Keynesian schools.
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Correspondence and papers.
Joan Robinson Papers, King’s College Modern Archive Centre, Cambridge.
Correspondents
MAURICE HERBERT DOBB, Correspondence 1939-73, Dobb Papers, Trinity College, Cambridge
ROY FORBES HARROD, Correspondence 1933-70, Harrod Papers, Chiba University of Commerce
RICHARD FERDINAND KAHN, BARON KAHN, Correspondence 1930-83, Kahn Papers, Modern Archive Centre, King’s College Cambridge
NICHOLAS KALDOR, BARON KALDOR, Correspondence 1930s-80s, Kaldor Papers, Modern Archive Centre, King’s College Cambridge
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES, BARON KEYNES, Correspondence 1932-44, Keynes Papers, Modern Archive Centre, King’s College Cambridge
ABBA PTACHYA LERNER. Correspondence 1930-78, Abba Ptachya Lerner Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington
FRITZ MACHLUP, Correspondence 1934-8, Machlup Papers, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford University
JAMES EDWARD MEADE, Correspondence 1932-73, Meade Papers, British Library of Political and Economic Science (BLPES)
LIONEL CHARLES ROBBINS, Correspondence 1946-58, Robbins Papers, BLPES
DENNIS HOLME ROBERTSON, Correspondence 1946-9, Robertson Papers, Wren Library, Trinity College Cambridge
PIERO SRAFFA, Correspondence and papers 1967-75, Sraffa Papers, Wren Library, Trinity College Cambridge
LABOUR PARTY, memoranda 1943, Labour Party Archives, Museum of Labour History, Manchester
Printed Sources
ODNB; IESS XVIII 663-71; New Palgrave IV 212-17
Maria Cristina Marcuzzo & Annalise Roselli (eds), Economists in Cambridge: A Study Through Their Correspondence, 1907-46 (London 2005); G.C. Harcourt and Prue Kerr, Joan Robinson (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)
Portraits
Marshall Library of Economics, Cambridge; ODNB 353