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...
teacher errors long
Progress is slow partly from mere intellectual inertia. In a subject where there is no agreed procedure for knocking out errors, doctrines have a long life. A professor teaches what he was taught, and his pupils, with a proper respect and reverence for teachers, set up a resistance against his critics for no other reason than that it was he whose pupils they were.
fall errors government
It is a popular error that bureaucracy is less flexible than private enterprise. It may be so in detail, but when large scale adaptations have to be made, central control is far more flexible. It may take two months to get an answer to a letter from a government department, but it takes twenty years for an industry under private enterprise to readjust itself to a fall in demand.
science errors progress
science progresses by trial and error, and when it is forbidden to admit error there can be no progress.
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.
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.
business principles economist
It is the business of economists, not to tell us what to do, but show why what we are doing anyway is in accord with proper principles.
ideas gaps repetition
New ideas are difficult just because they are new. Repetition has somehow plastered over the gaps and inconsistencies in the old ones, and the new cannot penetrate.
reality air giving
In general, the nightmare quality of Marx's thought gives it, in this bedevilled age, an air of greater reality than the gentle complacency of the orthodox academics. Yet he, at the same time, is more encouraging than they, for he releases hope as well as terror from Pandora's box, while they preach only the gloomy doctrine that all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.
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.