Frases de Joan Robinson

Joan Violet Robinson foi uma economista pós-keynesiana britânica que ampliou a teoria de John Maynard Keynes. Foi a introdutora do termo "monopsônio" em 1933 que significa um mercado que possui apenas um demandador . É tida como a maior economista do século XX. Wikipedia  

✵ 31. Outubro 1903 – 5. Agosto 1983
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“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.”

Fonte: Economic Philosophy (1962), p. 79
Contexto: 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.

“To supply goods is a source of profit, but to supply services is a ' burden upon industry.”

It is for this reason that when, as a nation, ' we have never had it so good ' we find that we ' cannot afford ' just what we most need.
Fonte: Contributions to Modern Economics (1978), Chapter 21, Latter-Day Capitalism, p. 239

“Even if the crises that are looming up are overcome and a new run of prosperity lies ahead, deeper problems will still remain.”

Conclusion, p. 143
Economic Heresies (1971)
Contexto: Even if the crises that are looming up are overcome and a new run of prosperity lies ahead, deeper problems will still remain. Modern capitalism has no purpose except to keep the show going.

“Their attitude to Marx, as the leading critic of capitalism, is therefore much less cocksure than it used to be. In my belief, they have much to learn from him.”

Joan Robinson livro An Essay on Marxian Economics

Foreword, p. xxii
An Essay on Marxian Economics (Second Edition) (1966)
Contexto: Until recently, Marx used to be treated in academic circles with contemptuous silence, broken only by an occasional mocking footnote. But modern developments in academic theory, forced by modern developments in economic life — the analysis of monopoly and the analysis of unemployment — have shattered the structure of orthodox doctrine and destroyed the complacency with which economists were wont to view the working of laissez-faire capitalism. Their attitude to Marx, as the leading critic of capitalism, is therefore much less cocksure than it used to be. In my belief, they have much to learn from him.

“There is an unearthly, mystical element in Friedman's thought.”

The mere existence of a stock of money somehow promotes expenditure. But insofar as he offers an intelligible theory, it is made up of elements borrowed from Keynes.
Fonte: Economic Heresies (1971), Chapter VI, Prices and Money, p. 87

“It is impossible to add the stock of money to the flow of saving.”

Fonte: Contributions to Modern Economics (1978), Chapter 4, The Concept of Hoarding, p. 32

“An agent must have some discretion.”

Fonte: Contributions to Modern Economics (1978), Chapter 22, Socialist Affluence., p. 246

“Michal Kalecki's claim to priority of publication is indisputable.”

Fonte: Contributions to Modern Economics (1978), Chapter 6, Kalecki And Keynes, p. 55

“Why did the hunters in the Wealth of Nations exchange beavers for deer?”

Fonte: Contributions to Modern Economics (1978), Chapter 14, The Philosophy of Prices, p. 146

“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.”

Fonte: Economic Heresies (1971), Chapter III, Interest and Profits, p. 50 (confer Karl Marx, Das Kapital, Buch II, Chapter XX, p. 474)

“the merchant had observed that the marginal utility of daughters decreases with surprising rapidity.”

Fonte: Contributions to Modern Economics (1978), Chapter 24, Beauty and the Beast, p. 268

“Income from property is not the reward of waiting, it is the reward of employing a good stockbroker.”

Fonte: Contributions to Modern Economics (1978), Chapter 16, The Theory of Value Reconsidered, p. 188

“Reality is never a golden age.”

Fonte: Economic Heresies (1971), Chapter III, Interest and Profit, p. 47

“A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.”

Fonte: Economic Heresies (1971), Chapter II, The Short Period, p. 23

“I began to read Capital, just as one reads any book, to see what was in it; I found a great deal that neither its followers nor its opponents had prepared me to expect.”

Joan Robinson livro An Essay on Marxian Economics

Preface To The Second Edition, p. vi
An Essay on Marxian Economics (Second Edition) (1966)

“The nature of technology depends very much upon what the public can be induced to put up with.”

Fonte: Economic Heresies (1971), Chapter VIII, Growth Models, p. 140

“Whatever you can rightly say about India, the opposite is also true.”

Amartya Sen's article in 'The Economist' dated November 18th, 2005 http://www.economist.com/node/5133493
India

“Capital' is not what capital is called, it is what its name is called.”

Fonte: Contributions to Modern Economics (1978), Chapter 8, Production Function and Theory of Capital, p. 79