# Joan Robinson (@joan-robinson)

Joan Robinson was a British economist whose work challenged competitive-market assumptions and pushed Keynesian economics toward questions of time, accumulation, power, and distribution. Her 1933 Economics of Imperfect Competition was an early major contribution, and her later critique of capital theory initiated a transatlantic controversy. She built her career at Cambridge despite formidable barriers to women in economics.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Joan Robinson's public record._

## Topics

- [Imperfect Competition](/@joan-robinson/imperfect-competition.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Keynes and Capital](/@joan-robinson/keynes-and-capital.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Politics and Legacy](/@joan-robinson/politics-and-legacy.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [The Cambridge Capital Controversy](/@joan-robinson/capital-controversy.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Keynes, Growth, and Time](/@joan-robinson/keynes-growth-and-time.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bios/Robinson.html
- blog: https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.33535036
- blog: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/joan-robinson/
- blog: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/joan-robinson-FBA/

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "joan-robinson", "question": "…"}`.