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The misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited at all.

— Joan Robinson Economic Philosophy (1962)

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

Contributions to Modern Economics (1978)

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

An Essay on Marxian Economics (Second Edition) (1966)

Income from property is not the reward of waiting, it is the reward of employing a good stockbroker.

Contributions to Modern Economics (1978)

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

Contributions to Modern Economics (1978)

The nature of technology depends very much upon what the public can be induced to put up with.

Economic Heresies (1971)

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The most obvious negative feature of capitalism is that it can produce private monopolies that restrict output and thereby harm consumers.

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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

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Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the moral, nor the ethics, nor the will to solve the problems of poverty.

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