ABSTRACT
After her discovery of bastard Keynesianism, Joan Robinson had learned through correspondence and through her visits to the United States that there were also American Keynesians of another sort. Paul Davidson initiated correspondence with Robinson by sending her a paper he had written on the demand for finance. Robinson pursued the correspondence even when she was in Canada, and they exchanged comments on each others' comments. Clearly Robinson had more esteem for them after she had met with the American post Keynesians and had come to realize their frustration and isolation was within the profession. Davidson and Robinson had several other exchanges, all in good humor and all making independent and penetrating points. But there were still misunderstandings. Davidson was undoubtedly thinking of himself as a Keynesian at this point; Robinson was thinking of her in the new Cambridge tradition, which she called "Anglo-Italian.".
