ROBINSON, Joan.

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Essays in the Theory of Employment. First edition, first impression, of these 13 essays applying Keynesian theory to practical issues, including the causes of inflation and the consequences of raising the school leaving age.Joan Robinson (1903-1983) was a member of the Cambridge Circus, the group of young economists whose work informed Keynes's General Theory: these Essays, published a year later, then developed the General Theory further. In 1979, Robinson became the first woman appointed an honorary fellow at Kings College Cambridge, Keynes's alma mater.Provenance: Norman Lee (d. 2005), a prominent author of economics textbooks, with his ownership inscription (dated February 1943 at New College, Oxford) to the front free endpaper and his later pictorial bookplate to the front pastedown.

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