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...
growth economic terrible
It's a terrible thing to be a worker exploited in the capitalist system. The only worse thing is to be a worker unable to find anyone to exploit you.
feet economics hypothesis
economics limps along with one foot in untested hypotheses and the other in untestable slogans.
self pessimism economics
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.
ideas october economics
When I came up to Cambridge (in October 1921) to read economics, I did not have much idea of what it was about.
money economics activity
owning capital is not a productive activity.
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.
study economics economist
The point of studying economics is so as not to be fooled by economists.
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.
economics capitalism
The only thing worse than being exploited by capitalism is not being exploited by capitalism.
again behind rest stay
Now that he is again behind bars, that is where he should stay for the rest of his life.
crime fee justice seems serious small talking work
We were actually talking about it at work this morning. It just does not fee as if justice was done. Seems like a really serious crime with a pretty small consequence.
board meeting parole position prison stays sure time
Our family's position now is any time he comes up for parole we will be at every parole board meeting to make sure he stays in prison where he belongs.
father jackie life
He is still the same manipulative person who has used the system, and it dishonors the life of my father and the life of Jackie Pigott.
motivation united-states moral
we make a great fuss about national conscience, but it consists mainly in insisting upon everyone ascribing our national policy to highly moral motives, rather than in examining what our motives really are.