Joan Robinson quotes

" "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. " # Teachers and Teaching # Critics and Criticism # Books - Reading

" "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." " # Economy and Economics # Business # Life and Living

" "The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists." " # Economy and Economics # Purpose # Questions

" "Whatever you can rightly say about India, the opposite is also true." " # Books - Reading

" "The misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited at all." " # Capitalism # Misers and Misery # Communism and Socialism