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It is the rate of investment which governs the rate of saving, and not vice versa. — Joan Robinson

Ideology is like breath: you never smell your own. — Joan Robinson

If there is any law governing the distribution of income between classes, it still remains to be discovered. — Joan Robinson

Yes! Oh, yes! Of course I forgive you! And I love you, Marnie. I shall never forget you, ever! — Joan G. Robinson

If a rise in wages does not raise prices, a fall will not reduce them. — Joan Robinson

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. — Joan Robinson

Didn't you know, you're my secret? — Joan G. Robinson

Unemployment is a reproach to a democratic government. — Joan Robinson

hurt inside her hardened. She — Joan G. Robinson

Marnie moved nearer and touched her hair. "Dear Anna, I love you more than any girl I've ever known. — Joan G. Robinson

But, as soon as speculators become an important influence in the market, their business is to speculate on each others behaviour. — Joan Robinson

The only thing worse than being exploited by capitalism is not being exploited by capitalism. — Joan Robinson

Not only subjective poverty is never overcome by growth, but absolute poverty is increased by it ... Absolute misery grows while wealth increases. — Joan Robinson

Science progresses by trial and error, and when it is forbidden to admit error there can be no progress. — Joan Robinson

Whatever you can rightly say about India, the opposite is also true. — Joan Robinson

The misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited at all. — Joan Robinson

The nature of technology depends very much upon what the public can be induced to put up with. — Joan Robinson

It is impossible to add the stock of money to the flow of saving. — Joan Robinson

A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism. — Joan Robinson

she was a little frightened that first afternoon. There seemed such a huge expanse of water and sky, and so little of herself. — Joan G. Robinson

You remember I said last night that you were my secret?" Anna nodded. "I knew just what you meant. You're mine. — Joan G. Robinson

There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks. — Joan Robinson

You can write books, but there's only ever one book that's really you. — Joan G. Robinson

The point of studying economics is so as not to be fooled by economists. — Joan Robinson

if she was over-sure of meeting her, that would be the time she would not come. — Joan G. Robinson

Unequal distribution of income is an excessively uneconomic method of getting the necessary saving done. — Joan Robinson

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. — Joan Robinson

Owning capital is not a productive activity. — Joan Robinson

When I came up to Cambridge (in October 1921) to read economics, I did not have much idea of what it was about. — Joan Robinson

Where is the pricing system that offers the consumer a fair choice between air to breathe and motor cars to drive about in? — Joan Robinson

She wanted to know about them, not to know them. — Joan G. Robinson

Economics limps along with one foot in untested hypotheses and the other in untestable slogans. — Joan Robinson

They sat so still that each of them might have been alone. — Joan G. Robinson

She felt free now. Free and empty. No need to talk to anyone, or be polite, or bother about anything. — Joan G. Robinson

Reality is never a golden age. — Joan Robinson