"The first essential for economists ... is to ... combat, not foster, the ideology which pretends that values which can be measured in terms of money are the only ones that ought to count."

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Source : Joan Robinson (2017). “Economic Philosophy”, p.95, Routledge

Joan Robinson

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“As a matter of fact, one of the things in Obamacare is that for the elderly, every five years you must have end-of-life counseling. Translation: suicide counseling.”
“Patience is very important, especially at the plate.”
“So every artist and would-be artist makes this same phrase: 'I knew, I never got it said.”
“Why, in our age of science, [do] we still have laws and policies which come from an age of superstition?”
“In any socialist government, they must destroy all alliances other than your alliance to the government, and they want the government to become your God. That for you to totally depend upon government. So we become slaves to government, through taxation, through regulation, through all kinds of restrictions, that makes us not free anymore.”
“I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager”
“It's never been done doesn't mean it can't be done.”
“As early as the autumn of 1862, I was made very happy by being sent to school.”

Source : John Sergeant Wise, Paul Dennis Sporer (2005). “End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier”, p.33, Anza Publishing

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