Janus: The Papers of Professor Joan Violet Robinson

King's/PP/JVR contains:
1	Books and contributions to books
2	Articles published or intended for publication
3	Oral presentations
4	Papers concerning work in progress
5	Juvenilia
6	Notes from the work of others
7	Correspondence, including unpublished papers written by others
8	Miscellaneous memorandums
9	Address books and loose notes of addresses
10	Engagement diaries
11	Field notebooks and travel journals
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The Papers of Professor Joan Violet Robinson

Title	Oral presentations
Reference	JVR/3
Covering Dates	1941–1981
Extent and Medium	24 envelopes; paper

Content and context

This series comprises extant texts of oral presentations given by Joan Robinson, including talks and lectures. Topics covered include other economists, reparations, employment, prices, inflation, population and developing nations.

King's/PP/JVR/3 contains:

[Nazism in Europe]. Autograph manuscript notes in ink, revised in ink and pencil-overwritten in ink. A talk given to undergraduates, probably at Cambridge. 8 numbered quarto leaves, horizontal 'chain-lines' 1 in.
1 envelope; paper.

June 1941-Dec. 1941

[W.S. Jevons, 1835-1882]. Autograph manuscript draft in ink, revised in ink and pencil; with one page of Joan Robinson's transcript (pencil) of a quotation from Wicksteed on Jevons. A talk apparently given in France at the end of World War II, as one of a series of lectures by different people. 16 numbered quarto leaves, no watermark. All versos blank except fols 1 and 16. + 1 octo leaf [17], no watermark.
1 envelope; paper.

Jan. 1946

[The British Balance of Payments].
1 envelope; paper.

June 1945-May 1946

'Economics of Full Employment'. Probably the lecture given to the Nationalokonomisk Forening at Copenhagen. 6 December 1946. Typescript with autograph manuscript corrections of typist's errors and other marks. Apparently given to three typists, whose stints were (1) fols 1-2, (2) fols 3-5, (3) fol. 6. Fol. 1 is initialled in typescript 'DEA', fol. 3 has no initials but has a pencil number '2' (this typist put catchwords at the foot of fols 3 and 4), and fol. 6 has the typescript initials 'BR'. Stints 1 and 2 were done on different machines; stint 3 on either that of stint 1 with a new ribbon, or another machine of that model. The figure '123' (in blue crayon) appears in an unidentified hand on fol. 1. 6 numbered leaves foolscap, no watermark, fols 1-2 slightly heavier than 3-6.
1 envelope; paper.

6 Dec. 1946

[Three Lectures to Chinese on planning the economy].
1 envelope; paper.

1957

'Rich and Poor Countries Ill: Industry and Trade'. Roneo typescript, in black ink, of the script of a discussion between Andrew Shonfield (Chairman), Joan Robinson, and Maurice Zinkin, rehearsed and recorded on 23 May 1962 and broadcast on Network Three. Produced by Roger Toulmin. 14 numbered leaves foolscap, no watermark. Broadcast 6 June 1962. A printed compliments slip of the British Broadcasting Corporation, signed by Roger Toulmin. [fol. 15]. Undated.
1 envelope; paper.

6 June 1962

'Economics of 1962' [or 'Latter-Day Capitalism'].
1 envelope; paper.

1962

[Short period price movements]. Autograph manuscript notes for lectures, with 5 copies of a roneoed page headed, 'Short Period Model // N.B. It is dangerous to use the model without explanations given in lectures. Joan Robinson'. Includes a reference to an article of June 1962. 68 sheets autograph manuscript: 63 quarto and 5 double foolscap. 1 roneoed form (filled in by Joan Robinson), double foolscap. 5 roneoed quarto sheets. Unnumbered; foliated as found.
1 envelope; paper.

1962–1963

'Notes for Seminar' [on development with special reference to China]. Typescript with some autograph manuscript alterations. Refers to the Chinese policy of 'walking on two legs' (from which can glean an approximate date). 4 numbered leaves flimsy quarto, no watermark.
1 envelope; paper.

1955–1965

'Population and Development'. Typescript with autograph manuscript alterations in pencil and black and blue ballpoints. Inscribed on fol. 1 by Joan Robinson 'Vassily Gloushkov'. Apparently a talk given in Russia. 9 numbered quarto leaves, watermark '64 Mill Bond Extra Strong'.
1 envelope; paper.

1960–1969

[Marx and Keynes].
1 envelope; paper.

1960–1979

[Address at Carleton University]. Photocopy of a typed transcript of Joan Robinson's address to Convocation, Carleton University, Ottawa. 6 leaves A4, no watermark. 1 June 1973. 1 typed letter, signed, from Thomas K. Rymes, Professor of Economics at Carleton, to Joan Robinson, enclosing this item and photocopies of related papers. 14 June 1973.
1 envelope; paper.

1 June 1973–14 June 1973

'The Contribution of Keynes to Economic Theory'.
1 envelope; paper.

June 1974

'[Lecture] 1. History versus Equilibrium'.
1 envelope; paper.

1970–1979

'Ideology and Analysis: Kalecki and Keynes'. Photocopy of a typed transcript of Joan Robinson's Martin F. Crego Lecture, Department of Economics, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, and of the introduction by Stephen W. Rousseas, Chairman of the Department. 25 quarto leaves, no watermark, numbered [t.p.] 1-24.
1 envelope; paper.

24 Mar. 1976

[The Cambridge Tradition].
1 envelope; paper.

Oct. 1976-Dec. 1981

'Lectures 1981'. Autograph manuscript notes for a lecture on the Arms Race. 4 quarto leaves, no watermark.
1 envelope; paper.

1981

'Spring Cleaning'. Photocopy of a typescript, cleaned up with Liquid Paper (or equivalent). 8 leaves A4, no watermark; 1-3 photocopied recto and verso [giving pages 1-6], 4-8 recto only [pages 7-11].
1 envelope; paper.

1980

'Economics Today'. Autograph manuscript notes, on the versos of headed paper of the University Women's Club, London W.1, apparently dating from the period of General Alvarado's Revolutionary Government in Peru. 8 quarto leaves.
1 envelope; paper.

Oct. 1968-Aug. 1975

'The Arms Race'.
1 envelope; paper.

1980

[Inflation and the Arms Race].
1 envelope; paper.

1980

Another lecture on inflation and the arms race. Typescript of a lecture, drawing on some material found in JVR/3/21, with autograph manuscript alterations and corrections of typist's errors. Contains a reference to the situation in 1980. 14 mixed quarto leaves.
1 envelope; paper.

1980-

'Inflation and the Economic Crisis'. Typescript of a lecture delivered by Joan Robinson at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. Defective. 15 leaves, some A4, others fragments.
1 envelope; paper.

22 Sep. 1980

[The development of China]. Autograph manuscript notes, probably for a talk, on China before and after the Great Leap Forward. 2 quarto leaves, no watermark. Torn from a pad, and still partly fastened at the top.
1 envelope; paper.

1964–1965