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Austin Robinson, 1897-1993.

E.A.G. (Edwin Austin Gossage) Robinson, better known simply as Austin Robinson, was a  Cambridge economist. 

After a brief stint in the Royal Naval Air Service in WWI, Robinson took up a scholarship at Christ's College, Cambridge in 1919.  After a brief sojourn in India, Austin Robinson married Joan Violet Maurice (Joan Robinson) in 1926, shortly before taking up a lectureship in economics at Cambridge. Austin Robinson was elected fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and became joint editor with Harrod of the Economic Journal after 1944.  During WWII, and several times afterwards, Robinson served as an economic advisor to the British government.

Together with Joan, Austin Robinson participated in J.M. Keynes's "Circus" at Cambridge in 1930-31.  Although he became a chronicler of the Keynesian revolution and supporter of the Cambridge Keynesians, his primary interests were in other areas.  His principal work was on expanding Marshall's writings on industrial structure and monopoly. 

The current building for the economics faculty at Cambridge is named after him.

 

  

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Major Works of Austin Robinson

  • The Structure of Competitive Industry, 1937.
  • "John Maynard Keynes, 1883-1946", EJ
  • Monopoly, 1941.
  • John Maynard Keynes, Economist, Author, Statesman, 1971.
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