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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

Letter from the agents of Harrell & Robinson to Gen. Alvaro Obregón, requesting that he send a photograph so that they can make photo buttons for his election campaign. Reply stating that they can get the pictures in Mexico City. / Carta de los agentes de la Harrell & Robinson al Gral. Alvaro Obregón, solicitándole envíe una fotografía con el fin de hacer los fotobotones de su campaña electoral. Respuesta indicando que pueden obtener las fotos en la ciudad de México.

Betty Robinson was raised in Maryland and attended Colby College, the University of Maryland, and Boston University for her Bachelor's, Master's and Doctoral degree, respectively. She worked for many years in workers rights, for the Massachusetts Nurses Association and for the Maine State Employees Union. She worked briefly for the Massachusetts Battered Women Coalition before laying herself off from the position because the program's federal funding was cut. During this time she became involved in the Boston women's movement. After being involved in union work for many years, she decided she needed a change and applied for a teaching position at the newly formed Lewiston/Auburn campus of the University of Southern Maine, which she was accepted for. While working at the L/A campus she fell in love with her friend and neighbor, Francis, and came out to the community at the same time that she was applying for a Dean position at the university. Her partner was a member of the military during the Don't Ask, Don't Tell era. When Betty came out to her mother they didn't speak for 5 weeks because her mother was so upset, but she eventually accepted Betty's relationship. Betty is now involved in immigrant rights activism and became especially inspired to do so when people from Somalia started immigrating to Lewiston and attending the L/A campus. She now is involved with Tree Street Youth, a youth program based in Lewiston that provides programming for youth, kindergarten through 24. Citation Please cite as: Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer+ Collection, Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine, University of Southern Maine Libraries. For more information about the Querying the Past: Maine LGBTQ Oral History Project, please contact Dr. Wendy Chapkis. ; https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/querying_ohproject/1058/thumbnail.jpg

Introduction -- Defoe and the Problem of the East India Company -- Between Castaways and Traders: Cannibal-cum-Crusoe in Sumatra and Andaman Islands -- Robinson Crusoe in the Context of Travel Narrative of Early Modern England on Asia -- Robinson Crusoe, Improvement and Intellectual Piracy in the Early Enlightenment -- Religious Conversion and the Far East in the Crusoe Trilogy -- 'Le coeur fou Robinsonne a travers les romans': Crusoe's Farther Adventures in the French Robinsonade -- Krusoe Robinson's Adventure: Technology of the Self and Double Consciousness in Joachim Heinrich Campe's Robinson der Jungere -- Kicking Away the Gold Coins: Ōtsuka Hisao's Reading of Robinson Crusoe and the "Human Archetype" of Post-War Japan -- Transforming and Translating the Novel Form: The Examples of Daniel Defoe and Lin Shu -- The Boy and the Sea: Translating Robinson Crusoe in Early Twentieth-Century Korea -- "I must endure courageously and manfully"— Robinson Crusoe Translated by Minami Yōichirō and its Influence on Later Translations in Post-War Japan -- Robinsonades in Japan: Colonial Fantasy, Survivalist Narrative, and Homo Economicus -- Crusoe Comes to Caramoan: The Survival of American Cultural Imperialism in the Philippines.

AbstractThis article reads Buṭrus al-Bustānī's 1861 translation of Daniel Defoe's 1719 Robinson Crusoe into Arabic in Beirut alongside Karl Marx's contemporaneous critique of the popularity of Robinsonades among British political economists. Al-Bustānī's translation of Robinson Crusoe sought to synch Arabic up with a global age of double-column bookkeeping, the telegraph, the steamship, and the newspaper, and in turn supplant the Indian Ocean stories of Sindbad the Sailor among Beirut's merchants. The latter story cycle constitutes Arabic literary capital appropriated, enumerated, and rendered exchangeable by the new novel form in the serialized English press of the mercantilist era. In Capital, Vol. 1, in the chapter "The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof," Marx represents Robinson not as a well-armed slave trader, but rather as endowed with only a watch (unbeknownst to Defoe), paper, pen, and ink. With these tools Marx's Robinson enacts the theory of value in the time of factory labor and the incomplete abolition of slavery. Al-Bustānī—like Faraḥ Anṭūn forty years later—confronts this unevenly syncopated, up-to-the-minute temporality in Arabic, as imperial finance reshapes the resources of the Eastern Mediterranean and migrant laborers depart its shores to work in textile mills in Argentina, Brazil, and the United States.

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.

Correspondence of Gen. Fortunato Maycotte, Mr. Fernando Torreblanca, and Gen. Alvaro Obregón, in which Gen. Maycotte informs Gen. Obregón that Gen. Rogelio Flores of the Fouth Brigade is now in Tehuacán, Puebla. Mr. Fernando Torreblanca informs Col. Carlos Robinson of the same matter. File R-22. / Correspondencia entre el Gral. Fortunato Maycotte, Sr. Fernando Torreblanca y Gral. Alvaro Obregón, en la que el primero informa al Gral. Obregón que el Gral. Rogelio Flores de la Cuarta Brigada se encuentra en Tehuacán, Pue. El Sr. Fernando Torreblanca informa al Corl. Carlos Robinson sobre el mismo asunto. Exp. R-22