Joan Robinson's Critique of Equilibrium: An Appraisal
梳理琼·罗宾逊对瓦尔拉斯均衡理论的批判，指出其批判源于对均衡本质和作用的误解，并对比现代理解。
Joan Robinson devoted much of her energy to critiquing equilibrium analysis, or what she was accustomed to calling Walrasian economics. In her various writings she returned again and again to the idea that Walrasian economics necessarily misdirected analysis in macroeconomics, capital theory, distribution theory, and value theory. Many of her writings made mention of Walrasian equilibrium, usually in the context of the wrong way to look at a particular problem. Indeed, for Robinson, the Walrasian theory came to stand for the intellectual opposition as were, for the others who had got wrong, where the it was anything from the measurement of capital to the role of expectations in long run investment decisions. My task today is a simple one. First I shall identify the central elements of Robinson's attack on Walrasian economics and then sketch what modern authors now understand to be the main points of the research Finally, I shall compare Robinson's understanding of, and critique of, that program with the program itself. From this, I shall argue that Robinson's analysis flowed from her flawed understanding of the nature and role of equilibrium in the neo-Walrasian program.