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Joan Robinson (1903–1983) is interested in the future that capitalism is planning for the world. This topic immediately sets her at odds with the neoclassical economists who sought to create a universal and timeless object of study. The persistence of the neoclassical model despite major objections to it—especially by Keynes but also by Robinson’s own work regarding the ambiguity of the concept of capital—leads her to question the nature of the work of economists. In a 1962 book entitled Economic Philosophy she states that economic analysis inevitably has one foot in science and another in philosophy; it would not exist, she argues, without an individual who questions the way of the world because they believe they can influence its course. JEL classification codes: B51, B52, E11, E12.