The Provocative Joan Robinson Wins HES Spengler Award

Congratulations to Nahid Aslanbeigui and Guy Oakes, authors of The Provocative Joan Robinson: The Making of a Cambridge Economist. The book won the Joseph J. Spengler Best Book Prize at the recent History of Economics Society annual meeting. The book is about the life and work of Joan Robinson (1903–83), one of the most original and prolific economists of the twentieth century who is widely regarded as the most important woman in the history of economic thought.