ABSTRACT
In the introduction to the first volume of her Collected Economic Papers, published in 1951, Joan Robinson in an illuminating line described Sraffa’s teaching as ‘penetrating our insularity’ (Robinson 1951:vii). This sentence could have been a title for this chapter, which is mainly concerned with Sraffa’s impact on Cambridge economics in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The assessment has been facilitated by the new catalogues of Keynes, Kahn and Joan Robinson papers,2 the recently granted access to Sraffa’s papers, and the availability of Austin Robinson’s papers, the cataloguing of which is under way.3
