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"Joan Robinson is widely considered to be amongst the greatest economists of the 20th Century. This book provides a comprehensive study of her life and work, examining her role in the making of The General Theory, her critical interest in Marxian eocnomics, her contributions to Labour Party policy and her writings on development, especially China"--Provided by publisher

Even centuries after her death, Joan of Arc remains both deeply admired and mysterious. This title recounts her rise from obscurity as the daughter of a tenant farmer to military leadership in the French campaigns against the British in the Hundred Years' War. It also highlights a strong woman embracing a destiny that, ultimately, meant sacrificing her own life for her faith and nation. The story of this unflinching leader-who remains a French national hero-during an era when women had far fewer freedoms than they do today makes for a lively, informative, and inspiring resource

Klappentext: Joan Crexells va morir jove, el 1926, deu anys abans de l'inici de la Guerra Civil. Fou una mort molt lamentada, perquè Crexells prometia molt. Així ho expressaren la majoria d?amics i coneguts, prohoms de la cultura com Carles Riba, Josep M. de Sagarra, Josep Pla, Joan Estelrich, Antoni Rovira i Virgili... Com les futures estrelles de rock, moria quan encara no havia arribat al zenit de la seva obra. Filòsof, periodista, assagista, traductor, a ningú no deixà indiferent. En una conferència a Salamanca, Unamuno, després de sentir-lo, exclamà «quin prodigi!». En el cas de Crexells, resulta inevitable fer tota mena d'elucubracions sobre «què hauria pogut ser» la cultura del país si no hagués mort tan aviat. De ben poques personalitats de la cultura catalana del segle passat, fins i tot d'aquelles que han acabat figurant en els llocs més destacats, se'n podria afirmar una cosa semblant.

Roger Backhouse remarks in "MIT and the Other Cambridge" (History of Political Economy 46, supplement) that the capital theory controversy came to be seen by most of the economics profession as a waste of time. Joan Robinson's 1953 paper "The Production Function and the Theory of Capital" started the controversy. An abbreviated version, published in the second volume of her Collected Economic Papers, made clear that her critique came in two parts. The "constructive" part drew attention to the phenomena of reverse capital deepening and re-switching of techniques and attracted the interest of theorists at MIT and elsewhere. The "negative" part concerned the problem of getting into equilibrium and was, for Robinson, the essence of the controversy. A close reading of the literature shows not only that Robinson was never credited with an understanding of the Achilles' heel that plagues dynamic general equilibrium models, but also that the problem, though variously recognized, was essentially ignored. The suggestion that the capital theory controversy was a waste of time fails to recognize that Robinson had drawn attention to a fundamental unsolved problem in economic theory.