================= HES POSTING ================= Robin, I think that you are offbase here, although this is a pretty murky business. I have just taken a look at my copy of Joan Robinson's _The Economics of Imperfect Competition_. As I suspected, Marx does not appear in the Index. Is this an awful failure to cite? I would note that Joan Robinson was not originally either a socialist or a Marxist, and she was always critical of Marx's theory of value and never accepted it in its straight Marxian form. In contrast to the usual orbit of personal political development, Joan Robinson moved left politically as she aged and did become a supporter of socialism and eventually an almost embarrassing apologist for the Maoist and Kim Il Sung regimes in China and North Korea respectively. But that later development had little to do with her 1933 views on monopolistic competition. Thus, I believe that your criticism of Ekeland and Tollison is quite misguided. As a curious aside, I note that the first time I ever attended an AEA meeting was in December, 1973 in New York. This was only a few years after the Economics Nobel Prize was established. I was riding in an elevator in the Hilton and overheard a conversation between Lionel McKenzie and someone else. McKenzie declared that the Nobel Prize Committee would "in the near future give Mrs. Robinson the Prize for her _Economics of Imperfect Competition_." He then went on to sneeringly remark that this would annoy her as her views had changed so much since the early 1930s. Barkley Rosser ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]