ROBINSON (Joan).
Some Problems of Definition and Measurement of Capital.
The first separate appearance of this paper criticising the neoclassical assumption of the existence of an aggregate capital stock, originally read to an Anglo-French Colloquium on the Theory of Economic Growth held in Paris in December 1958, published here with minor alterations.
The paper marked the continuation of the so-called Cambridge Capital Controversy regarding the production function and measurement of capital. The controversy stemmed from a 1953 article in which Robinson launched a scathing attack on the neoclassical concept of ‘production function’, eliciting a number of responses, most notably by the American Keynesian Robert M. Solow.