Doe Quote by Joan Robinson Download Open image “If a rise in wages does not raise prices, a fall will not reduce them.” — Joan Robinson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Doe Fall Ifs Raises Wages
Raising the minimum wage does not take from growth, it adds to growth. — Phil Murphy Copy Share Image
In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
A rise in wages, from an alteration in the value of money, produces a general effect on price, and for that reason it produces… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
There's no question raising the minimum wage excessively causes a loss of jobs. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Rising prices or wages do not cause inflation; they only report it. They represent an essential form of economic speech, sincemoney isjust another form… — Walter Wriston Copy Share Image
In addition to joblessness, of course, by the working of supply and demand, when you have a larger number of people unemployed, wages do… — Tim Bishop Copy Share Image
The value of the minimum wage shouldn't be eroded, and it has been. — Robert J. Garagiola Copy Share Image
If the price of everything is going down, that's going to include wages as well. People will have an incentive to sit on their… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
By tying minimum wage to money supply, the poor's income would rise and fall with the rise and fall in money supply. — Max Keiser Copy Share Image
If the economy is growing, people want to employ more workers. If you hire more labor, wages go up. — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
The very nature of economics is rooted in nationalism. ... It [was] developed ... in the hope of throwing light upon questions of policy.… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Unequal distribution of income is an excessively uneconomic method of getting the necessary saving done. — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
we make a great fuss about national conscience, but it consists mainly in insisting upon everyone ascribing our national policy to highly moral motives,… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Marx, however imperfectly he worked out the details, set himself the task of discovering the law of motion of capitalism, and if there is… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Economic theorists should not make such a production about taking a rabbit out of a hat after having put the rabbit into the hat… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
science progresses by trial and error, and when it is forbidden to admit error there can be no progress. — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
The orthodox doctrines of economics which were dominant in the last quarter of the nineteenth century had a clear message. They supported laisser faire,… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
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… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Not only subjective poverty is never overcome by growth, but absolute poverty is increased by it. ... Absolute misery grows while wealth increases. — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
“After the war, when the problem of deficient effective demand seemed to have faded into the background, a fresh question came to the fore… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
Nothing old is ever reborn but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been born, will always reappear in a new… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
