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

— Joan Robinson

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

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English economist 1903–1983

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