Education
She was educated at St Paul’s Girls’ School in London. (Curiously enough, Richard Kahn was educated in the boys’ section of the same school.
She was educated at St Paul’s Girls’ School in London. (Curiously enough, Richard Kahn was educated in the boys’ section of the same school.
In 1937, she became a lecturer in economics at the University of Cambridge.
She joined the British Academy in 1958 and was then elected fellow of Newnham College in 1962.
In 1965 she was given the position of full professor and fellow of Girton College.
In 1979, just four years before she died, she became the first female fellow of King's College.
In 1949, she was invited by Ragnar Frisch to become the vice president of the Econometric Society but declined, saying she couldn't be part of the editorial committee of a journal she couldn't read.
In 1956, Joan Robinson published her magnum opus, The Accumulation of Capital, which extended Keynesianism into the long-run. Six years later, she published another book about growth theory, which talked about concepts of "Golden Age" growth paths. Afterwards, she developed the Cambridge growth theory with Nicholas Kaldor. During the 1960s, she was a major participant in the Cambridge capital controversy alongside Piero Sraffa.
Close to the end of her life she studied and concentrated on methodological problems in economics and tried to recover the original message of Keynes' General Theory. Between 1962 and 1980 she wrote many economics books for the general public. Robinson suggested developing an alternative to the revival of classical economics.
