INTRODUCTION

The papers collected in this book have been selected from those presented at a conference in memory of Joan Robinson, held in the tenth year after her death (5 August 1983). The conference took place in Turin in December 1993 and was jointly organized by Societ Italiana degli Economisti (SIE), Fondazione Einaudi, and a Research Group on `Distribuzione del reddito, progresso tecnico e sviluppo economico' of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR). We are grateful to Giacomo Becattini, President of SIE, the late Mario Einaudi and Terenzio Cozzi of the Einaudi Foundation, and Carlo D'Adda, Chairman of the CNR Research Group, for their help and Silvia Brandolin for her skilful editorial assistance.