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“The fundamental differences between Marxian and traditional orthodox economics are, first, that the orthodox economists accept the capitalist system as part of the eternal order of Nature, while Marx regards it as a passing phase in the transition from the feudal economy of the past to the socialist economy of the future.”

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Joan Robinson libro An Essay on Marxian Economics

Origine: An Essay on Marxian Economics (Second Edition) (1966), Chapter I, Introduction, p. 1

“But, as soon as speculators become an important influence in the market, their business is to speculate on each others behaviour.”

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Origine: Contributions to Modern Economics (1978), Chapter 5, The Rate of Interest, p. 46

“It is much easier to organize control over one industry serving many markets than over one market served by the products of several industries.”

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Origine: Contributions to Modern Economics (1978), Chapter 15, 'Imperfect Competition' Revisited, p. 167

“When I came up to Cambridge (in October 1921) to read economics, I did not have much idea of what it was about.”

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Reminiscences, p. ix
Contributions to Modern Economics (1978)

“In general, the nightmare quality of Marx's thought gives it, in this bedevilled age, an air of greater reality than the gentle complacency of the orthodox academics. Yet he, at the same time, is more encouraging than they, for he releases hope as well as terror from Pandora's box, while they preach only the gloomy doctrine that all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.”

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Origine: An Essay on Marxian Economics (Second Edition) (1966), Chapter I, Introduction, p. 4-5

“It is the rate of investment which governs the rate of saving, and not vice versa.”

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Origine: An Essay on Marxian Economics (Second Edition) (1966), Chapter VIII, The General Theory of Employment, p. 66

“In 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.”

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Origine: Economic Heresies (1971), Chapter I, Stationary States, p. 14

“Time, so to say, runs at right angles to the page at each point on the curve.”

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Origine: Economic Heresies (1971), Chapter VII, The Theory of the Firm, p. 104

“If a rise in wages does not raise prices, a fall will not reduce them.”

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Origine: An Essay on Marxian Economics (Second Edition) (1966), Chapter X, Real And Money Wages, p. 89

“There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks.”

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Origine: Contributions to Modern Economics (1978), Chapter 1, The Second Crisis of Economic Theory, p. 3

“But the tygers of wrath go the other way. Do not ask me why. It is just a fact I noticed when I was looking through field glasses from a machan.”

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Origine: Contributions to Modern Economics (1978), Chapter 13, Lecture at Oxford by a Cambridge Economist, p. 143 (spelling as per text...)

“The bastard Keynesian doctrine, evolved in the United States, invaded the economic faculties of the world, floating on the wings of the almighty dollar.”

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Origine: Contributions to Modern Economics (1978), Chapter 23, What Has Become of Employment Policy?, p. 256

“It is high time to abandon the mainstream and take to the turbulent waters of truly dynamic analysis.”

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Origine: Contributions to Modern Economics (1978), Chapter 11, The Meaning of Capital, p. 125

“If there is any law governing the distribution of income between classes, it still remains to be discovered.”

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Origine: An Essay on Marxian Economics (Second Edition) (1966), Chapter IV, The Long-Period Theory Of Employment, p. 34

“It seems that neither the Keynesian nor the Marxian prognosis of the future of capitalism is being fulfilled and we are left without any particular theory as to what will happen next.”

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Origine: Contributions to Modern Economics (1978), Chapter 20, Has Capitalism Changed?, p. 227

“At any moment there is certainly not balanced trade between the various areas of the habitable globe that happens to be under separate national governments — there is an ever-changing pattern of deficits and surpluses.”

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Origine: Contributions to Modern Economics (1978), Chapter 19, The Need For A Reconsideration, p. 218

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