Joan Robinson
Joan Robinson
Joan Violet Robinson FBAwas a British economist who was well known for her work on monetary economics and wide-ranging contributions to economic theory. She was the daughter of Major-General Sir Frederick Barton Maurice, 1st Baronet, and was married to Austin Robinson, a fellow economist. Together, they had two children...
government unemployment democratic
Unemployment is a reproach to a democratic government.
mean light economics
The very nature of economics is rooted in nationalism. ... It [was] developed ... in the hope of throwing light upon questions of policy. But policy means nothing unless there is an authority to carry it out, and authorities are national.
opposites india
Whatever you can rightly say about India, the opposite is also true.
running lying purpose
Even if the crises that are looming up are overcome and a new run of prosperity lies ahead, deeper problems will still remain. Modern capitalism has no purpose except to keep the show going.
views hats rabbits
Economic theorists should not make such a production about taking a rabbit out of a hat after having put the rabbit into the hat in full view of the audience.
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The point of studying economics is so as not to be fooled by economists.
saving income done
Unequal distribution of income is an excessively uneconomic method of getting the necessary saving done.
science errors progress
science progresses by trial and error, and when it is forbidden to admit error there can be no progress.
class purpose welfare
One of the main effects (I will not say purposes) of orthodox traditional economics was ... a plan for explaining to the privileged class that their position was morally right and was necessary for the welfare of society.
economy marxist marxism
Marxism is the opium of the Marxists.
quality want facts
Utility is a metaphysical concept of impregnable circularity; utility is the quality in commodities that makes individuals want to buy them, and the fact that individuals want to buy commodities shows that they have utility.
firsts essentials economics
The first essential for economists ... is to ... combat, not foster, the ideology which pretends that values which can be measured in terms of money are the only ones that ought to count.
technology depends
The nature of technology depends very much upon what the public can be induced to put up with.
smell ideology breaths
Ideology is like breath: you never smell your own.