Cheers to Joan Robinson!
Joan Robinson was arguably the first female economist to be thought of as a major player in economics. She lived from 1903-1983 and was a British native. She lived in Europe her whole life and married an economist, Austin Robinson. They both worked out of the same educational institution, University of Cambridge. Joan worked there from 1931-1971 and published tons of work on economics ranging from her break out work, The Economics of Imperfect Competition, to expanding upon Keynesian economics. She had an original type of writing that was known for being methodical and included mathematical equations expressed in words. Due to the large amount of work Robinson published, she was known for having a significant impact on the field of economics. One of Robinson's famous quotes was, "the purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists". I thought...