we 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 RobinsonWhen I came up to Cambridge (in October 1921) to read economics, I did not have much idea of what it was about.
Joan RobinsonBut, as soon as speculators become an important influence in the market, their business is to speculate on each others behaviour.
Joan RobinsonMarx, however imperfectly he worked out the details, set himself the task of discovering the law of motion of capitalism, and if there is any hope of progress in economics at all, it must be in using academic methods to solve the problems posed by Marx.
Joan Robinson