Joan Robinson

The study of economics should make us skeptical of all panaceas.

Money is a veil, but it covers a multitude of sins.

Sustainable development requires ethical economics.

The class struggle is the motor of history, even in economics.

Life's value lies not in possessions, but in relations.

Keynes taught us that uncertainty is the rule in economics.

Politicians promise utopias; economists deliver models.

The real wealth of nations is their people, not their GDP.

Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism, and its economics.

Philosophy without economics is blind; economics without philosophy is lame.

The wage is not a cost, it is a source of demand.

In art, as in economics, form follows function.

Laughter is the best critique of absurd economic policies.

The meaning of life is to contribute to a just society.

Marginalism is a fairy tale for grown-up economists.

Power corrupts, and absolute economic power corrupts absolutely.

Wisdom in economics comes from questioning assumptions.

The soul of economics is in its ethical foundations.

On her deathbed: Economics was my life, but life is more than economics.