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In a famous essay a few years ago, at a time when her admirers had perhaps hoped for answers, Joan Robinson asked instead, ‘What Are the Questions?’ Her list provided a catalogue of the ills of economics: unsatisfactory definitions at the heart of the subject — in regard to equilibrium, production, and the firm; inappropriate methodology for considering time and history; confused and unsatisfactory theories of capital, distribution, prices, growth and trade; ideology rather than analysis guiding policy; and, above all, no clear idea of what it is all about — no adequate answer to the question, what is more wealth for?
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© 1993 Ron Blackwell, Jaspal Chatha and Edward J. Nell
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Nell, E.J. (1993). Introduction: History and Vision in Economics. In: Blackwell, R., Chatha, J., Nell, E.J. (eds) Economics as Worldly Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22572-9_1
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