economic policies. Family Joan's father was Frederick Maurice, her mother was Margaret Helen Marsh. Joan Maurice married fellow economist Austin Robinson in 1926. They had two daughters. The distinguished London surgeon and Cambridge academic Howard Marsh was Joan Robinson's maternal grandfather. Recognition In 2016, the Council of the University of Cambridge approved the use of Robinson's name to mark a physical feature within the North West Cambridge Development. Major works The Economics of Imperfect Competition (1933) Essays in the Theory of Employment (1937) An Essay on Marxian Economics (1942), Second Edition (1966) (The Macmillan Press Ltd, ) The Production Function and the Theory of Capital (1953) Accumulation of Capital (1956) Exercises in Economic Analysis (1960) Essays in the Theory of Economic Growth (1962) Economic Philosophy: An Essay on the Progress of Economic Thought (1962) Freedom and Necessity: An Introduction to the Study of Society (1970) Economic Heresies: Some Old Fashioned Questions in Economic Theory (1971) (Basic Books, New York, ) Contributions to Modern Economics (1978) (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, ) Further Contributions to Modern Economics (1980) (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, ) Texts for the lay reader Economics is a serious subject: The apologia of an economist to the mathematician, the scientist and the plain man (1932), W. Heffer & Sons Introduction to the Theory of Employment (1937) The Cultural Revolution in China, Harmondsworth: Pelican Original (1969) An Introduction to Modern Economics (1973) with John Eatwell The Arms Race (1981), Tanner Lectures on Human Values See also International economics List of economists Macroeconomics Wealth condensation Welfare economics References Further reading Emani, Zohreh, 2000, "Joan Robinson" in Robert W. Dimand et al. (eds), A Biographical Dictionary of Women Economists, Edward Elgar. Harcourt, G. C., 1995, Obituary: Joan Robinson 1903–1983, Economic Journal, Vol. 105, No. 432. (September 1995), pp. 1228–1243. Harcourt, G. C. and Kerr, P. (2009). Joan Robinson. Palgrave MacMillan. Pasinetti, Luigi L. (1987), "Robinson, Joan Violet," The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, v. 4, pp. 212–17, Macmillan. Vianello, F. [1996], "Joan Robinson on Normal Prices (and the Normal rate of Profits)", in: Marcuzzo, M.C. and Pasinetti, L. and Roncaglia, A. (eds.), The Economics of Joan Robinson, New York: Routledge, . External links Joan Violet Robinson, 1903–1983 The New School Joan Robinson at Stanford, May 1974 Australian School of Business, 27 March 2009 – Three hours of Robinson' lectures at Stanford, 1974 On Re-Reading Marx, by Joan Robinson, (Cambridge, England: 1953) 1903 births