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I had privilege of spending an afternoon with Joan Robinson around 1970.  
I was very interested in her understanding of Marx, since she was very 
supportive of China at the time. 
 
She repeated what she had written elsewhere.  Marx was okay, but she 
found nothing in Marx of value that she could not find the in Keynes.  Her 
greatest influence was Kalecki. 
 
Her failure to cite Marx reflected a relatively superficial, yet 
sympathetic reading of Marx in which she dismissed anything beyond a 
sympathy for the working class and an economic theory of underconsumption. 
 In short, Robinson, like so many of us, find what we want in what we 
read, rather than the author wants to say. 
 
Michael Perelman 
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