This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by Sheila Dow.
Joan Robinson was one of the greatest economists of the twentieth century and a fearless critic of free-market capitalism.
Here our task is to sort out as best we may this mixture of ideology and science."With these provocative words, Joan Robinson introduces this lively and iconoclastic book.
Economic philosophy
The book investigates the relationship between the economic and political writings of four seminal authors: Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Joseph A. Schumpeter, and John M. Keynes.