Re: Joan Robinson

["Anthony D'Costa" <dcosta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The "exploitation" part.  Better to have exploitation than no
exploitation, clearly a reference to the capital accumulation process in
the context of developing countries (India, specifically).

Anthony D'Costa


On Fri, 11 Nov 1994, MJH YAFFEY wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Nov 1994, Anthony D'Costa wrote:
>
> > It is interesting that Jim brings up an aphorism of Joan Robinson, the
> > first one in fact in his message below, which I had used as an
> > argument in an essay submitted to a "left" wing journal.  Ironically
> > Joan Robinson was not accepted by one of the anonymous "leftie" referees
> > since she was in a way advocating capitalism.  There are two kinds of
> > lefties, soft and hard.  Joan Robinson belonged to the latter.
> >
> That is ironic; when did she ever advocate capitalism?
>
> But I don't think she was hard in any sense. She married a much
> more orthodox economist and always kept a respect for mainstream
> economics. When I was her student I felt I was a harder leftie
> than she was.
>
> If by "hard leftie" you mean dogmatic pseudo-marxist
> with little empirical foundation, she certainly does not
> deserve that label.
>
>
> Michael Yaffey,
> Development and Project Planning Centre, Bradford University
>
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