Joan Robinson: Quotes about time

Joan Robinson was English economist. Explore interesting quotes on time.

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“Voltaire remarked that it is possible to kill a flock of sheep by witchcraft if you give them plenty of arsenic at the same time. The sheep, in this figure, may well stand for the complacent apologists of capitalism; Marx's penetrating insight and bitter hatred of oppression supply the arsenic, while the labour theory of value provides the incantations.”

Joan Robinson book An Essay on Marxian Economics

Source: An Essay on Marxian Economics (Second Edition) (1966), Chapter III, The Labour Theory Of Value, p. 22

“But once we bring historical time into the argument, it is not so easy to present the free play of the market as an ideal mechanism for maximizingwelfare and securing social justice.”

Source: Economic Heresies (1971), Chapter IV, Increasing and Diminishing Returns, p. 63

“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.”

Joan Robinson book An Essay on Marxian Economics

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

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

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

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

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