The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by ec…

- Joan Robinson

Ideology is like breath: you never smell your own.

- Joan Robinson

One of the main effects (I will not say purposes) of orthodox traditional economics was ... a plan for explaining to the privileged class that their …

- Joan Robinson

Marxism is the opium of the Marxists.

- Joan Robinson

The first essential for economists ... is to ... combat, not foster, the ideology which pretends that values which can be measured in terms of money …

- Joan Robinson

Capitalism with near-full employment was an impressive spectacle. But a growth in wealth is not at all the same thing as reducing poverty. A universa…

- Joan Robinson

It's a terrible thing to be a worker exploited in the capitalist system. The only worse thing is to be a worker unable to find anyone to exploit you.

- Joan Robinson

The point of studying economics is so as not to be fooled by economists.

- Joan Robinson

Reality is never a golden age.

- Joan Robinson