Activity Quote by Joan Robinson Download Open image “owning capital is not a productive activity.” — Joan Robinson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Activity Economics Money Productive
A peculiarity of capital is that it cannot be employed productively without benefiting the community in which it is used. — William Feather Copy Share Image
capital cannot be more beneficially employed, then in strengthening and aiding the productive powers of nature. — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
An efficient economy does not perpetuate the misallocation of capital - it punishes it. — Barry Gardiner Copy Share Image
Wealth is not determined by investment performance, but by investor behavior. — Nick Murray Copy Share Image
Capital must be propelled by self-interest; it cannot be enticed by benevolence. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The publication of the third volume of Capital has made hardly any impression upon bourgeois economic science. — Rudolf Hilferding 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
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
And also I think the rise of other, you could say, destinations for international jihadis mean that Pakistan isn't necessarily the place where people… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but a pleasurable… — Lisa Lucas Copy Share Image
For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity. — Gero Miesenbock Copy Share Image
Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity. — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Once an activity has been socialized, it is impossible to point out, by concrete example, how men in a free market could better conduct… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
