Where is the pricing system that offers the consumer a fair choice between air to breathe and motor cars to drive about in?
Joan RobinsonUtility is a metaphysical concept of impregnable circularity; utility is the quality in commodities that makes individuals want to buy them, and the fact that individuals want to buy commodities shows that they have utility.
Joan Robinsonwe make a great fuss about national conscience, but it consists mainly in insisting upon everyone ascribing our national policy to highly moral motives, rather than in examining what our motives really are.
Joan Robinson