economics limps along with one foot in untested hypotheses and the other in untestable slogans.
Joan RobinsonIn all the talk in the Principles (as opposed to the formal analysis) it is not the saving of rentiers but the energy of entrepreneurs which governs accumulation.
Joan RobinsonIncome from property is not the reward of waiting, it is the reward of employing a good stockbroker.
Joan RobinsonThe first essential for economists ... is to ... combat, not foster, the ideology which pretends that values which can be measured in terms of money are the only ones that ought to count.
Joan Robinson