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Joan Robinson

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But the tygers of wrath go the other way. Do not ask me why. It is just a fact I noticed when I was looking through field glasses from a machan.
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Chapter 13, Lecture at Oxford by a Cambridge Economist, p. 143 (spelling as per text...)

 
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