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...
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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.
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.
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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.
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Unequal distribution of income is an excessively uneconomic method of getting the necessary saving done.
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owning capital is not a productive activity.
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Whatever you can rightly say about India, the opposite is also true.
sheep giving hatred
Voltaire remarked that it is possible to kill a flock of sheep by witchcraft if you give them plenty of arsenic at the same time. The sheep, in this figure, may well stand for the complacent apologists of capitalism; Marx's penetrating insight and bitter hatred of oppression supply the arsenic, while the labour theory of value provides the incantations.
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The misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited at all.
should-have growth needs
Capitalism with near-full employment was an impressive spectacle. But a growth in wealth is not at all the same thing as reducing poverty. A universal paean was raised in praise of growth. Growth was going to solve all problems. No need to bother about poverty. Growth will lift up the bottom and poverty will disappear without any need to pay attention to it. The economists, who should have known better, fell in with the same cry.
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I do not regard the Keynesian revolution as a great intellectual triumph. On the contrary, it was a tragedy because it came so late. Hitler had already found out how to cure unemployment before Keynes had finished explaining why it occured.
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Marxism is the opium of the Marxists.
entrepreneur analysis saving
In all the talk in the Principles (as opposed to the formal analysis) it is not the saving of rentiers but the energy of entrepreneurs which governs accumulation.