On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 12:17:11 -0700 michael perelman
<michael.perelman3 at gmail.com> writes:
> she told me, surprisingly, that her biggest influence was Kalecki.
I think that Keynes's relationship with Marxism was more complicated than what he was willing to admit to. Although he was fierce in his denunciations of Marxism and the workers' movement, it was Keynes who was responsible for bringing to Cambridge both Sraffa, the friend of Gramsci, and Kalecki, whose views had been developed on the basis of a close study of the economic writings of Rosa Luxemburg.
Some people may recall that Joan Robinson was widely thought to have been up for the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1975. BusinessWeek even ran a profile on her in the expectation that she would get the Prize. Instead the Prize went to awarded it to the Soviet economist and mathematician, Leonid Kantorovich, and the American, Tjalling C. Koopmans, for their work in creating linear programming.
Apparently, Robinson despite her contributions in such areas as the analysis of imperfect competition and capital theory (work which was of at least the same caliber as that of other economists who did win the Prize) was denied it because of her outspoken leftist, even Maoist, politics, and many say, because she was after all a woman.
No woman had ever won the Prize in economics (it was only in 2009 that a woman finally did win the Prize). It was also said that the Nobel Committee was fearful that she might "pull a Sartre" on them and turn down the prize, possibly following that up with a denunciation of the economics profession in general. In fact it is reported that she went out of her way to reassure the Committee that she had no intentions of doing any such thing, but they never awarded her the Prize anyway.
Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math
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