Joan Robinson

Person · Open Library

Born

1903

Died

1983

Works

137

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1946-08-15

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

93

Total plays

235

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. <tt>edgeR</tt> : a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data

   · 2009 · cited 39,707x

2. Welcome to the Tidyverse

   · 2019 · cited 20,494x

3. Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

   · 2009 · cited 18,985x

4. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   · 2020 · cited 15,984x

5. Integrative genomics viewer

   · 2011 · cited 14,820x

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Quotes

• “Whatever you can rightly say about India, the opposite is also true.”
• “It is the business of economists, not to tell us what to do, but show why what we are doing anyway is in accord with proper principles.”
• “The misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited at all.”
• “Progress is slow partly from mere intellectual inertia. In a subject where there is no agreed procedure for knocking out errors, doctrines have a long life. A professor teaches what he was taught, and his pupils, with a proper respect and reverence for teachers, set up a resistance against his critics for no other reason than that it was he whose pupils they were.”
• “The fundamental differences between Marxian and traditional orthodox economics are, first, that the orthodox economists accept the capitalist system as part of the eternal order of Nature, while Marx regards it as a passing phase in the transition from the feudal economy of the past to the socialist economy of the future.”
• “In general, the nightmare quality of Marx's thought gives it, in this bedevilled age, an air of greater reality than the gentle complacency of the orthodox academics. Yet he, at the same time, is more encouraging than they, for he releases hope as well as terror from Pandora's box, while they preach only the gloomy doctrine that all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.”

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Key facts

Born

Joan Violet Maurice , ( 1903-10-31 ) 31 October 1903, Surrey , England

Died

5 August 1983 (1983-08-05) (aged 79), Cambridge , England

Spouse

Austin Robinson (m. 1926)

Influences

Adam Smith , Karl Marx , John Maynard Keynes , Piero Sraffa , Michał Kalecki

Discipline

Monetary economics

School or tradition

Post-Keynesian economics

Doctoral students

Amartya Sen

Notable ideas

Joan Robinson's growth model , Amoroso–Robinson relation , Monopsony theory , Imperfect competition

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