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.
Joan RobinsonWhere is the pricing system that offers the consumer a fair choice between air to breathe and motor cars to drive about in?
Joan RobinsonWhen I came up to Cambridge (in October 1921) to read economics, I did not have much idea of what it was about.
Joan RobinsonOne of the main effects (I will not say purposes) of orthodox traditional economics was ... a plan for explaining to the privileged class that their position was morally right and was necessary for the welfare of society.
Joan Robinson