ROBINSON (Joan).
Essays in the Theory of Economic Growth.
A significant later work in which Joan Robinson sought to further elucidate her magnum opus The Accumulation of Capital ’to those who were mystified, or irritated, or both, by the 1956 volume. Certainly, the 1962 volume was a great help in extracting messages that had been overlaid or were not brought out as clearly in her ‘big book’ (though the Essays too are not always easy-going). … The book was much narrower in scope, a concentration on pure theory and a refusal to indulge in ‘real world’ speculations of the sort which had often confused readers of the 1956 volume; she aimed in the book to set out her core findings and the arguments by which they were reached were in a straightforward and essentials-only manner. ’ (Harcourt & Kerr, Joan Robinson, p. 78, 118).
