Where is the pricing system that offers the consumer a fair choice between air to breathe and motor cars to drive about in?
Joan RobinsonUnequal distribution of income is an excessively uneconomic method of getting the necessary saving done.
Joan RobinsonProgress 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.
Joan RobinsonIt is much easier to organize control over one industry serving many markets than over one market served by the products of several industries.
Joan Robinson