Thursday, November 21, 2024 Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 licence.

Joan Robinson

« All quotes from this author
 

'Capital' is not what capital is called, it is what its name is called.
--
Chapter 8, Production Function and Theory of Capital, p. 79

 
Joan Robinson

» Joan Robinson - all quotes »



Tags: Joan Robinson Quotes, Authors starting by R


Similar quotes

 

We have just seen that, apart from money-capital, circulating capital is only another name for commodity-capital. But to the extent that labour power circulates in the market,it is not capital, no form of commodity-capital. It is not capital at all; the labourer is not a capitalist, although he brings a commodity to market, namely his own skin.

 
Karl Marx
 

Hundreds of millions in capital has been invested to develop our resources. Let me repeat: American capital, English capital, French capital: Welcome!

 
Maurice Duplessis
 

Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights. Nor is it denied that there is, and probably always will be, a relation between labor and capital producing mutual benefits. The error is in assuming that the whole labor of community exists within that relation.

 
Abraham Lincoln
 

We got rich by violating one of the central tenets of economics: thou shall not sell off your capital and call it income. And yet over the past 40 years we have clear-cut the forests, fished rivers and oceans to the brink of extinction and siphoned oil from the earth as if it possessed an infinite supply. We've sold off our planet's natural capital and called it income. And now the earth, like the economy, is stripped.

 
Kalle Lasn
 

Capital must work, as it were, in concert with industry; and this concurrence is what I call the productive agency of capital.

 
Jean-Baptiste Say
© 2009–2013Quotes Privacy Policy | Contact