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...
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.
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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.
technology depends
The nature of technology depends very much upon what the public can be induced to put up with.
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Unequal distribution of income is an excessively uneconomic method of getting the necessary saving done.
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.
intellectual tragedy unemployment
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.
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It is impossible to add the stock of money to the flow of saving.
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It is much easier to organize control over one industry serving many markets than over one market served by the products of several industries.
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Income from property is not the reward of waiting, it is the reward of employing a good stockbroker.
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A sure sign of a crisis is the prevalence of cranks. It is characteristic of a crisis in theory that cranks get a hearing from the public which orthodoxy is failing to satisfy.