Joan Robinson
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"Joan Violet Robinson" Fellow of the British Academy/FBA was a British Post-Keynesian economics/post-Keynesian economist who was well known for her work on monetary economics and wide-ranging contributions to economic theory. She was the daughter of Major-General Frederick Barton Maurice/Sir Frederick Barton Maurice, 1st Baronet, and was married to Austin Robinson, a fellow economist. Together, they had two children.

Dr. Manmohan Singh, prime minister of India (2004–2014), who was a student at the University of Cambridge in the 1950s, said in an interview in 2005: "At (Cambridge) university I first became conscious of the creative role of politics in shaping human affairs, and I owe that mostly to my teachers Joan Robinson and Nicholas Kaldor. Joan Robinson was a brilliant teacher, but she also sought to awaken the inner conscience of her students in a manner that very few others were able to achieve. She questioned me a great deal and made me think the unthinkable. She propounded the left-wing interpretation of John Maynard Keynes/Keynes, maintaining that the state has to play more of a role if you really want to combine development with social equity."

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Our family's position now is any time he comes up for parole we will be at every parole board meeting to make sure he stays in prison where he belongs.

He is still the same manipulative person who has used the system, and it dishonors the life of my father and the life of Jackie Pigott.

We were actually talking about it at work this morning. It just does not fee as if justice was done. Seems like a really serious crime with a pretty small consequence.