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.
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.
saving income done
Unequal distribution of income is an excessively uneconomic method of getting the necessary saving done.
money economics activity
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.
long investment profit
Rosa Luxemburg maintained that the capitalist system can keep up its rate of investment (and therefore its profits) only so long as it is expanding geographically.
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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.
growth poverty overcoming
Not only subjective poverty is never overcome by growth, but absolute poverty is increased by it. ... Absolute misery grows while wealth increases.
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.
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.